is this real?

Bazzite/SteamOS:

Stockings actually protect against leg blood clots

windows

What's Mac?
- sandals or something

is this real?

~ 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.....

Temple OS, checking in.

More like...

E + Sandals must be openSuSe.

And Slackware is no clothes at all.
- Gentoo is a loom.
- And Slackware is no clothes at all.
  slackware is regular socks with those leather hold ups for men in the 1950s
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.
- Upvoted, for being the only one to mention
  void
  so far.
  :)
- Well, you haven’t seen what’s under the skirt
There is room in !unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone for everyone!
Speak for yourself.

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.

Commodore OS Vision

They look fucking RAD!
- If you like Grey alien penis slippers.

The colors! My eyes! It's not beige! /Jking
(Keep rocking the Arch)
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
- 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).

I need higher socks... All of mine are don't e Ubuntu level.

Mint user here can confirm.

Windows

BTW I dream of staying in Mint. Naah.

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

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
  nix
  
  { pkgs, config, lib, ... }: { # ... thigh-highs.enable = true; # ... }

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.
_arch _btw...
- The diagram very clearly shows there's another Alternative...
- i use mint btw.

openSUSE
\

Is this sock or skirt length?

Also what are they running? Bare metal?

Bare metal
you naughty

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.
- 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
- 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

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.

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.

So, what distro is commando?

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

Same

S - just a onesie

Or S is a straitjacket for TempleOS users
Onesie OS
Distro mascot is one of those onesie fur suits.

Or is just fantasy?

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.

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.

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

Arch Linux looks like the AM logo. Coincidence?

The only thing missing is full fishnet tights with a girdle for Gentoo.

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

where’s gentoo?

Amost ready, just a little more knitting to do

D should've been Hannah Montana Linux

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.

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.

I was under the impression the programmer socks were compulsory for anything requiring you to compile your own kernel
That's the neat part, you don't have to be a woman to rock them.
as a man, I ain't rocking thigh-high socks
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)

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

C+ Endeavour/Cachy?

That's just Arch with extra steps

I mean, i use fedora but wear the NixOS height.

damn, i guess i gotta go pickup some knee high sockies :3

I always thought be was Varicose vein/venous insufficiency Linux... At least that is what it is for me

I always thought be was Varicose vein/venous insufficiency Linux… At least that is what it is for me
be?
beOS?

A is for Absolute Territory. Where do I get my socks they look warm?

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.

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.

Debian (forced) user here, can confirm

Nope, I use mint but wear boot socks.

For males, sure! Mandatory.

Somehow fedora has always been the easiest for what it is

The tube sock of distros 😆