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.
I mean, if your beliefs in the unix philosophy are still strong enough to do away with the convenience that is (or can be...) systemd, you deserve some respect.
I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again...
Distro surfing on the side (e.g. with virtual machines, or pendrives, or multiboots, or spare machines), rather than distrohopping for the main daily driver, kept me sane as I surfed (probably) over 1000 distros between 2003 and 2012. Really only had 3 long lasting daily drivers in that time [on my main rig], from suse, to sabayon, to gentoo [and crunchbang and others on the thinkpad].
All my rabid distro surfing (~ not distrohopping, honest! lol) stopped, when I found the cheatcode...
Here comes a number of hours procrastinating tinkering with my system to make me more productive on one of the numerous side projects that I will, for sure, finish now.
hey thigh highs are great socks but cut the bottoms off for fingers and thumbs, sew some lace on the top, and add some trinkets for decoration, and they make cute arm warmers too
I believe it is a MoYu RS3M but I don't know how to confirm that. It's been so long since I bought it and I lost the actual box and accessories somewhere in my last couple of moves
Ah, I thought that GAN is the only one with pointy corner peices near the center. I also have MoYu, but Weilong GTSM3. It's pretty old now, but with lube it is still very satisfying to rotate. Though not much time to cube compared to when I got it.
About 21 seconds. When I'm practicing and actually have the cube lubed up I tend to average around 32-33s but lately I'm averaging closer to 38. I switched to the roux method a couple years ago and it's been treating my brain well but I don't have as many 'holy shit I can shortcut half the steps' moments so it has been difficult breaking my PB with it
Well, thankfully I now can brag with my sub 15 solve: 14.936 (a few months ago). But it was pretty lucky. No skip ones are about 18 seconds. But I, too, average about 30–40 seconds. I actually had about 21 s PB for the longest time. ;)
I've learned the remaining OLLs during a summer month, but after having no time to really practice, I forgot almost all of them. The muscle memory is probably there, but no connection to the actual OLL patterns. I still remember all PLLs.
All in all, gotta re-learn the OLLs and practice cross, and some better no-cube-rotation F2Ls. I've looked at other methods, but I still have a ton of room for improvement, so I have no intention to switching to anything else.
I thought cubers were crazy before I held a GAN cube. That is 100% a GAN or at the least one of those knock off GAN (that are still way better than a regular rubix).
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mint is considered the best replacement for Windows because Cinnamon more closely resembles Windows. Personally I can't stand GNOME, but I've heard it more closely resembles macOS
Mint forked when Ubuntu/Kubuntu was in a relatively decent place. They kept a strong focus on simplicity and stability in their choices, while Ubuntu is somewhat in controversy with snaps and a history of questionable decisions, they're just not as trusted as Mint is at this point.
I'm using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I'm using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.
I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.
But I'm also digging it. Especially since it's not Weyland, I've been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies
Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen
If you are going to provide support to non-Linux users, I would highly recommend an immutable distro. Choosing something from Fedora or it's clones will keep uneducated users from being able to mess with the underlying OS. Yet it allow users to install/uninstall software through flatpacks with no need of sudo and the risks it can bring. Updates can be set to automatic and they will never need to do updates themselves. And if something does go boom, then you can easily roll back on reboot to get a working desktop until you can fix things for them.
It has just never occurred to me that what I need while surfing the arch wiki at 3am are some thigh high socks.
So yeah, it's me not society. Society can go fuck itself though, and if I had to wear them in solidarity with my linux fam, I probably would, just not as a regular thing.
(and i have some hairy legs, I refuse to shave them so I don't imagine them looking that great on me either ahah)
windows
What's Mac?
sandals or something
With posix socks underneath…
E + Sandals must be openSuSe.
And Slackware is no clothes at all.
Gentoo is a loom.
LFS is the location of a bag of cotton and carding instructions.
slackware is regular socks with those leather hold ups for men in the 1950s
.... But completely nude otherwise.
Sandals and socks it is then!
As is German tradition.
as an openSUSE user can confirm that i wear sandals
but i dont wear socks
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.
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.
Well, you haven’t seen what’s under the skirt
Upvoted, for being the only one to mention
so far.
:)
I mean, if your beliefs in the unix philosophy are still strong enough to do away with the convenience that is (or can be...) systemd, you deserve some respect.
One can use a different init system for a reason such as reduced attack surface. OpenRC ihas much lighter codebase than systemd.
::: spoiler runit is niiiiiice. http://ks392457.kimsufi.com/stuff/runitisnice.flac :::
I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again, I am happy with my system and won't distrohop again...
Distro surfing on the side (e.g. with virtual machines, or pendrives, or multiboots, or spare machines), rather than distrohopping for the main daily driver, kept me sane as I surfed (probably) over 1000 distros between 2003 and 2012. Really only had 3 long lasting daily drivers in that time [on my main rig], from suse, to sabayon, to gentoo [and crunchbang and others on the thinkpad].
All my rabid distro surfing (~ not distrohopping, honest! lol) stopped, when I found the cheatcode...
::: spoiler cheatcode to end distrohopping https://bedrocklinux.org/ :::
... Just in case that mantra fails.
... Damn you.
Here comes a number of hours
procrastinatingtinkering with my system to make me more productive on one of the numerous side projects that I will, for sure, finish now.You don't want <300mb ram usage with sound+network+swaywm+dillo?
There is room in ![email protected] for everyone!
Speak for yourself.
Temple OS, checking in.
More like...
as a mint user you can pry my thigh highs from my cold dead hands
Why are you wearing them on your hands?
If they're made for hands, they are gloves.
hey thigh highs are great socks but cut the bottoms off for fingers and thumbs, sew some lace on the top, and add some trinkets for decoration, and they make cute arm warmers too
It's only a matter of time until you match that meme and there's only one alternative.
archbtw...The diagram very clearly shows there's another Alternative...
am i gonna have to discover nixos? yes i am
Have fun! I moved to nix on my personal laptop 2 years ago, and now my config is 21k lines long and manages ~35 devices :)
Or GuixSD,
So then at least you're learning a transferable skill.
i use mint btw.
Commodore OS Vision
They look fucking RAD!
If you like Grey alien penis slippers.
Doesn't everyone?
I've not asked everyone.
...
It's not something I ask anyone.
So I don't know.
Oh...
Except, I know there's at least one who does not.
What's best is the #49 model of the extremely successful alien penis line of slippers is my favourite
Loss of people prefer the retro #20s designs but I like the modern ones with the obvious caterpillar tracks
::: spoiler I use Arch btw :::
Why does the mouse look like it had blot flies breed apon it?
I think that's to prevent sweaty hands by allowing air to flow through the mouse and past your hand.
I like to breed things okay
Is this a GAN?
I believe it is a MoYu RS3M but I don't know how to confirm that. It's been so long since I bought it and I lost the actual box and accessories somewhere in my last couple of moves
Ah, I thought that GAN is the only one with pointy corner peices near the center. I also have MoYu, but Weilong GTSM3. It's pretty old now, but with lube it is still very satisfying to rotate. Though not much time to cube compared to when I got it.
So...you're not gonna flex with your PB?
About 21 seconds. When I'm practicing and actually have the cube lubed up I tend to average around 32-33s but lately I'm averaging closer to 38. I switched to the roux method a couple years ago and it's been treating my brain well but I don't have as many 'holy shit I can shortcut half the steps' moments so it has been difficult breaking my PB with it
Well, thankfully I now can brag with my sub 15 solve: 14.936 (a few months ago). But it was pretty lucky. No skip ones are about 18 seconds. But I, too, average about 30–40 seconds. I actually had about 21 s PB for the longest time. ;)
I've learned the remaining OLLs during a summer month, but after having no time to really practice, I forgot almost all of them. The muscle memory is probably there, but no connection to the actual OLL patterns. I still remember all PLLs.
All in all, gotta re-learn the OLLs and practice cross, and some better no-cube-rotation F2Ls. I've looked at other methods, but I still have a ton of room for improvement, so I have no intention to switching to anything else.
I thought cubers were crazy before I held a GAN cube. That is 100% a GAN or at the least one of those knock off GAN (that are still way better than a regular rubix).
love ur keyboard :D
The colors! My eyes! It's not beige! /Jking
(Keep rocking the Arch)
Windows
BTW I dream of staying in Mint. Naah.
This, but with only four toes, all the same size.
openSUSE
Bazzite/SteamOS:
Stockings actually protect against leg blood clots
my nixOS didn't come with thigh highs
they're available separately
you can install them from a package manager such as Amazon
oh actually my bad, i figured out how to do it declaratively
configuration.nix
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.
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.
This guy is living the dream
Looks down Yeah about right.
~ Kinda.
Under the skirt, going up, there's Gentoo, Exherbo, and LFS.
LFS is just a fucking body suit
LFS is Hell.
There was a time I thought I knew how to Linux properly. I could compile kernels fearlessly. But I was wrong. So very, very wrong.....
So like a body suit when you have sudden diarrhea?
Kinda, sorta, maybe, not really at......
::: spoiler spoiler ... Other side, there's Bedrock. :::
Gimp suit. Not to be confused with GIMP.
Nah, ubuntus definitely the ankle socks
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.
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.
Mint is considered the best replacement for Windows because Cinnamon more closely resembles Windows. Personally I can't stand GNOME, but I've heard it more closely resembles macOS
Mint forked when Ubuntu/Kubuntu was in a relatively decent place. They kept a strong focus on simplicity and stability in their choices, while Ubuntu is somewhat in controversy with snaps and a history of questionable decisions, they're just not as trusted as Mint is at this point.
edit: formatting
I'm using mint in fluffy warm house socks. In my defense, I'm using Mint because I may have to install a super user-friendly linux on the old computers of two boomer family members who are using win 11 and macOS respectively.
I need to make sure I know it really well and can do whatever tech support I need to do. And lock it down for them.
But I'm also digging it. Especially since it's not Weyland, I've been able to lock all the inputs and still watch movies
Edit: to protect from my cat, who just knocked my phone out of my hand and butt submitted this before I was ready. Now to clean my screen
If you are going to provide support to non-Linux users, I would highly recommend an immutable distro. Choosing something from Fedora or it's clones will keep uneducated users from being able to mess with the underlying OS. Yet it allow users to install/uninstall software through flatpacks with no need of sudo and the risks it can bring. Updates can be set to automatic and they will never need to do updates themselves. And if something does go boom, then you can easily roll back on reboot to get a working desktop until you can fix things for them.
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
You should just wear socks with sandals, I hear it's fashionable
I actually use openSUSE too, but my socks are between Mint and Ubuntu.
socks with sandals is part of the opensuse mandated uniform
to me socks aren't comfortable
autism sensory something
Same, but I like to wear sneakers and they get weird without socks.
S - just a onesie
Or S is a straitjacket for TempleOS users
Onesie OS
Distro mascot is one of those onesie fur suits.
why did i have to go over to nix >w<
Same
Apparently I just gotta find someone who uses NixOS...
Hai :3
That's me! No stockings though, sorry.
Guix
Oi you aint willing to build your system from scratch?
Lazy ass
Welp enough talk, if you need me ill be compiling
As a nixos user I guess so. It is like -5 here though so today it’s more heated blanket.
I'm in Canada and a NixOS user and today i'm wearing long jons and hiking socks cause it's god damn freezing here.
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.
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
D should've been Hannah Montana Linux
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.
That's the neat part, you don't have to be a woman to rock them.
I was under the impression the programmer socks were compulsory for anything requiring you to compile your own kernel
Is this because you actively choose to not wear them as a man, or because society will try to make you feel wrong for doing it?
If the latter, then fuck everyone else.
It has just never occurred to me that what I need while surfing the arch wiki at 3am are some thigh high socks.
So yeah, it's me not society. Society can go fuck itself though, and if I had to wear them in solidarity with my linux fam, I probably would, just not as a regular thing.
(and i have some hairy legs, I refuse to shave them so I don't imagine them looking that great on me either ahah)
Or is just fantasy?
I need higher socks... All of mine are don't e Ubuntu level.
Is this sock or skirt length?
Also what are they running? Bare metal?
you naughty
The only thing missing is full fishnet tights with a girdle for Gentoo.
I use a Fedora variant and that’s about how high my socks are right now. Seems accurate.
I mean at least for fedora apparently yes. You guys spying on me wtf?
I'm an arch user (primarily) but I wear my socks at NixOS, Mint or sometimes Fedora because I never threw out my pre egg-crack socks.
C+ Endeavour/Cachy?
That's just Arch with extra steps
Mint user here can confirm.
where’s gentoo?
Amost ready, just a little more knitting to do
Arch Linux looks like the AM logo. Coincidence?
So, what distro is commando?
Slackware
slackware hasn't been that sexy in a long time :P
As a Mint user, I can say that my socks are usually between E and D. As such, I can firmly say this graph is incorrect!
Anyway, any Nix users in the chat? Just asking.
A is for Absolute Territory. Where do I get my socks they look warm?
I may be using Mint, but know that I'm wearing sandals
Well, my current distro reading this, and current socks worn happen to be an exact match.
So confirmed, I guess.
Somehow fedora has always been the easiest for what it is
The tube sock of distros 😆
damn, i guess i gotta go pickup some knee high sockies :3
I've tried them all but I've always been at fedora length. I did end up sticking with fedora so probably accurate enough.
I’m a Mint user but according to this I should be a Fedora user at least. Perhaps a distro switch is in order.
I am also Mint user but I should be like NixOS user by this image. I am planning on switching to CachyOS tho.
I mean, i use fedora but wear the NixOS height.
I always thought be was Varicose vein/venous insufficiency Linux... At least that is what it is for me
be?
beOS?
I'm assuming Gentoo is a full body stocking.
As a fedora and mint user, this is very accurate, I only have those 2 types of socks, all in black.
I don't acknowledge the long decorated christmas socks my sister gifts me every year, even if they have penguins and rockets, my two favorite things.
I used to wear too many hats at work, now I wear too many socks at home
Went ice skating today, knee high socks, Debian user. It's actually factual.
Gentoo gang where?
Full leather gimp body suit.
And your DE determines the skirt skirtness?
For males, sure! Mandatory.
Nope, I use mint but wear boot socks.
For those that don't know, there is a community for this sort of thing:
![email protected]
Debian (forced) user here, can confirm