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QubesOS: multiple leggings.
Linux From Scratch:
Here's a needle and cloth. Go make a skirt yourself.
OpenSUSE: sandals and long socks.
Edit (a few hours later): here's a bonus. going by their corporate/design philosophy rather than their difficulty, here's a summary, explaining distros as leggings.
A Summary of Linux Distros as Leggings
BEGINNERMint: Get a pair of pre-made leggings for free. Not all of its material is made by the vendor, but it just works fine and that's okay. Literally, just go to a thrift shop, get fresh, store-like leggings, put on, done. Recommend it for everyone if you just start out with leggings.
Ubuntu: Like a meh version of Mint, but promoted themselves more to make up for it. Gradually, companies started to buy from this one because they heard of it. Decent, just slightly more corporatised.
Pop!: Optimised leggings for gaming. Similar to Ubuntu in design, but the programming colours pop! out more. Also, it can fold its parts out and in with remarkable ease, so you can multitask easily. Quick to put on and easy to move in, great performance.
Zorin: Unlike other distros, its vendor has got more focus on being for-profit. But it's pretty accessible and comfy to wear, and it comes with looks that resemble those of Windows or Mac leggings, if you preferred those.
INTERMEDIATE
Fedora: Much of the material is made by the vendor and you know where it's from. Material adjusts swiftly to seasons. American company finances the community (in exchange, they make their own version they sell to others).
OpenSUSE: Same story as Fedora financing-wise, except the backer is German. Comes with their intuitive sewing & usage manual. It comes with a self-restore kit for when you fuck up. The vendor has two types of leggings: Leap, where the style periodically shifts for seasons, and Tumbleweed, which adapts quickier.
Debian: All of the material is made by the vendor. You can see how the fibers are connected and where it's from. Its materials are very slow to adapt to seasons, but it never rips.
ADVANCED
Tails: Nobody should know what's under those leggings, right? So grab a one-use legging from the box that fits inside a pocket. Put it on, go anywhere, put off and destroy the legging. You can pull a new legging from that box afterward.
Arch: Here's the material and here's a manual for letting the leggings (adjusted to your wish) be made. Once completed, it adjusts fast to seasons whenever you wash it yourself - so don't forget to then throw it in a washing machine!
Kali: The leggings aren't too comfy or casual, but included is: a tool list to learn to spot mistakes and erasures in legging construction, and tools for fixing those.
QubesOS: A legging on which you can stitch different legging parts, so people don't know which legging you truly wear. Someone damages one of your parts? Just rip it off and put a new on. Parts will eventually be damaged anyways, so better make sure all the parts are separate and can be replaced without problems.
Lix: Here's the material and an instruction manual for making it yourself. And here's a customisation menu for how exactly you want your leggings, alongside with a washing machine and a self-restore kit in case you fuck up (see also: OpenSUSE).
SUFFERING, WHY DO YOU DO THIS?
Gentoo: Here's a stitch and needle. Now go make your own leggings. But don't worry, there's a manual for making the parts fit together, but it's much more of a hassle than Arch and might rip quite often if you forgot a thread here or here. You'll understand more of how the leggings work, though.
Linux from Scratch: The above vendor clearly doesn't know the entire process. I can do anything! They skipped the very begin. Here's my advice. Go bloody make a stitch and needle from raw materials yourself. Then make your own leggings. Manual for making parts fit together not included. After all, you'll make it truly your own.
LFS is literally just a manual though.
Leather socks tho
