I used to wear too many hats at work, now I wear too many socks at home
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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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.
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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.
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Speak for yourself.
Temple OS, checking in.
More like...
Commodore OS Vision
Windows
BTW I dream of staying in Mint. Naah.
Windows
This, but with only four toes, all the same size.
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.
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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.
to me socks aren't comfortable
autism sensory something
Same, but I like to wear sneakers and they get weird without socks.
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
{
pkgs,
config,
lib,
...
}: {
# ...
thigh-highs.enable = true;
# ...
}
openSUSE
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.....
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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.
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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.
Thereβs 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. Itβs 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. Donβt 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.
I need higher socks... All of mine are don't e Ubuntu level.
Or is just fantasy?
Is this sock or skirt length?
Also what are they running? Bare metal?
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