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    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 94 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    E + Sandals must be openSuSe.

    [–] stinerman@feddit.online 54 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    And Slackware is no clothes at all.

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] j4k3@piefed.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

    LFS is the location of a bag of cotton and carding instructions.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    And Slackware is no clothes at all.

    slackware is regular socks with those leather hold ups for men in the 1950s

    [–] tenchiken@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 weeks ago

    .... But completely nude otherwise.

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    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 84 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 70 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    You do not want to see an old-school greybeard dressing like this.

    You might think you do when you first imagine the concept, but no, you really don't.

    Source: Am at the very least greybeard adjacent.

    [–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

    That's funny because seeing that meme, I thought how interesting it was that the "hardcoreness" of a Linux user went from being measured by the length of the greybeard to the height of the programming socks.

    Although, I guess back then, the distros mentioned would probably have been revolving around Gentoo, void, slackware, and Linux from scratch. So I suppose greybeards don't necessarily need the high socks.

    Damn shame if you ask me.

    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Well, you haven’t seen what’s under the skirt

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    [–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 weeks ago

    There is room in !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone for everyone!

    [–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Speak for yourself.

    [–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    as a mint user you can pry my thigh highs from my cold dead hands

    [–] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Why are you wearing them on your hands?

    If they're made for hands, they are gloves.

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    [–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It's only a matter of time until you match that meme and there's only one alternative.

    ~arch~ ~btw...~

    [–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    The diagram very clearly shows there's another Alternative...

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    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

    More like...
    Monty Python limbless knight

    [–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)
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    [–] muhyb@programming.dev 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
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    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Windows

    BTW I dream of staying in Mint. Naah.

    [–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Windows

    This, but with only four toes, all the same size.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 weeks ago
    [–] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Are Crocs with socks Gentoo?

    A handful of my co-workers are Gentoo loyalists, and they wear CwS year-round. Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.

    [–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Contrary to the stereotype of CwS being the strongest possible birth control, these dudes are beating back the female suitors with a stick.

    There’s a weird horseshoe effect, where you stop giving a fuck what others think of you so hard that it loops back around to being attractive again. It’s a confidence thing. Genuinely not caring what others think usually requires a lot of self-worth and confidence.

    Source: Regularly rock the CwS, am happily married. Don’t even need to beat back female suitors, because the wife is a hot bisexual goth witch who regularly brings home other women for us to bed.

    [–] onnekas@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 weeks ago

    This guy is living the dream

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 weeks ago

    Looks down Yeah about right.

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    my nixOS didn't come with thigh highs

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    [–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Or S is a straitjacket for TempleOS users

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    [–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    Nah, ubuntus definitely the ankle socks

    [–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Like, yes and no.

    For people who are somewhat familiar with Linux, Ubuntu is certainty recognised as being about as mainstream as any distro is able to be, and a safe haven for Linux noobs for decades.

    In recent years however it's Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro for people fleeing the evils of Windows, ramping up especially with the discontinuation of Windows 10.

    So right now, Mint might be more of a beginner distro than even Ubuntu.

    [–] dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Mint which has for whatever reason been constantly recommended as a go-to distro

    I can bring my anecdote to the table:

    I was able to mess up my initial ubuntu install so bad, that any time I deleted a file, the system thought I threw out that piece of drive with it. Maybe I reigned back on my careless 'sudoing', but Mint was able to take me all the way to the Arch variants without breaking.

    Now I just do whatever Endeavour tells me. Next step will be to start messing properly with Arch (and kin), and see what all the fuss is about around FOSS.

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    [–] halvar@lemy.lol 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    why did i have to go over to nix >w<

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    [–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    i use openSUSE and i usually don't wear socks

    here it is warm enough for sandals to be practical, but i do have some Linux Mint socks for when i wear hiking boots

    i should get some NixOS socks

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    [–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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    [–] mitchty 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    As a nixos user I guess so. It is like -5 here though so today it’s more heated blanket.

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    [–] Zoot@reddthat.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Apparently I just gotta find someone who uses NixOS...

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    [–] Outsider9042@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    Nah I am on fedora and the only socks I have that go that high are my skiing and hiking socks. Most of them go to ubuntu

    [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    I'm a mint guy and cis, but I wear my socks at more of an ubuntu level. Is it because I also like functional programming?

    Shout out to all the cool trans geeks, though.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    is this real?

    ~ Kinda.

    Under the skirt, going up, there's Gentoo, Exherbo, and LFS.

    [–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

    LFS is just a fucking body suit

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    [–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    fedora, debian and arch linux user here, and no, as a man, I ain't rocking thigh-high socks, but if I was a woman, hell yeah I would.

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

    That's the neat part, you don't have to be a woman to rock them.

    [–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

    I was under the impression the programmer socks were compulsory for anything requiring you to compile your own kernel

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