• palordrolap@fedia.io
    3·
    7 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
      0·
      7 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.

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 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.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
    1·
    7 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.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      3·
      7 months ago

      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.

      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
        2·
        7 months ago

        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)

  • CaptainCapy@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    I’m a Mint user but according to this I should be a Fedora user at least. Perhaps a distro switch is in order.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      7 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.

      • PNW clouds@infosec.pub
        0·
        7 months ago

        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

        • Bluewing@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 months ago

          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.