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[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 90 points 10 months ago

E + Sandals must be openSuSe.

[-] stinerman@feddit.online 50 points 10 months ago

And Slackware is no clothes at all.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 40 points 10 months ago
[-] j4k3@piefed.world 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

.... But completely nude otherwise.

[-] brap@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Sandals and socks it is then!

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[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 69 points 10 months ago

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 43 points 10 months ago

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 6 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 10 months ago

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

[-] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

Speak for yourself.

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 10 months ago

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

[-] MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

~arch~ ~btw...~

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 31 points 10 months ago
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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Windows

BTW I dream of staying in Mint. Naah.

[-] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Windows

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

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 30 points 10 months ago
[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago
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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago
[-] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

More like...
Monty Python limbless knight

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 29 points 10 months ago
[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

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 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 7 points 10 months ago

This guy is living the dream

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 20 points 10 months ago

Looks down Yeah about right.

[-] callyral@pawb.social 18 points 10 months ago

my nixOS didn't come with thigh highs

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[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
[-] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or S is a straitjacket for TempleOS users

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[-] halvar@lemy.lol 15 points 10 months ago

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

[-] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago

Nah, ubuntus definitely the ankle socks

[-] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

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.

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[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

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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[-] Zoot@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago
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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

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 10 months ago

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

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 10 months ago

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

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[-] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Or is just fantasy?

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 6 points 10 months ago

is this real?

~ Kinda.

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

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[-] Outsider9042@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago
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[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 10 months ago

D should've been Hannah Montana Linux

[-] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

I use a Fedora variant and that’s about how high my socks are right now. Seems accurate.

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