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    [–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 64 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Linux isn’t a colour, it’s a spectrum.

    [–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    And it changes based on who’s using it

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

    *insert ham fisted reference to gender nonconforming people using arch here*

    someone from blahaj.zone, please make this funny and not offensive. I'd love to but I am too cis.

    [–] cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    All of them, it’s a rainbow 🌈

    [–] Ftumch@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago

    Linux can be all colors in the rainbow (white) or no colors at all (black). Linux is black, white and everything in between.

    [–] mech@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago

    alt textDebian: Don't complain, she calls me Old Ubuntu!

    [–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Color of linux is whatever color scheme you want to use.

    [–] ray@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Unless you use GNOME. Then your options are grey or black.

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

    I caught trouble the other day for saying this. Apparently there are themes for GNOME (even GTK4) that can mitigate the limited colour palette(s). Locked-in window layout choices are a different matter entirely, of course, but we can do something about the colour of them.

    [–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

    Is gnome areald ez ywan6ile ui ported to desktop?

    [–] Durandal@lemmy.today 16 points 3 months ago

    ~~Love~~ Linux sees no color. 🐧

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    This colors: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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    [–] VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

    Mine is black with bright green text. Dunno what you other weirdos are doing

    [–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It's color is not on the visible spectrum, but a whole different kind of spectrum.

    [–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

    autism spectrum

    [–] ji59@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 3 months ago
    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

    White on black tty is the common denominator of all Linux distros, I have tried.

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    So what colour is a car anyway? Black like a car, purple like a car? Blue like a car?

    [–] msrb711@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    There's a famous Henry Ford quote: "Our customers can get a car in any color they like as long that color is black"

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Henry Ford was not into open source development.

    [–] msrb711@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] badlotus@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

    Beat me to it. Red and black!

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)
    [–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago

    You know... Debian:

    Debian purple edition

    [–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago

    IDK. Octarine, probably.

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

    It's either pleurigloss (the color of a solider returning from war and seeing their dog for the first time) or hooloovoo (the super intelligent shade of blue).

    [–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
    [–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

    My lawn, your entire family

    [–] Entertain529@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

    Red like Xenia!

    [–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

    Transparency

    [–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    I can hear my hair growing

    [–] Hule@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

    You still have hair?!

    Edit: I have hair in my ears, does that count?

    [–] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

    You can hear it better in your ears

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago

    Black and white 80x25 BIOS text screen with the IBM PC ROM font, not unlike the MS-DOS it sought to replace.

    Everything else is fluff on top of that, possibly occupying different graphics planes available in whatever hardware is available.

    Yes, technically modern PCs and Linux have moved beyond that 80x25 screen for the most part, but its immediate descendant is still in use, often during boot, but also on Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] on many distros.

    [–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

    Like, what are the iconic colors of Linux? The equivalent to the MS blue?

    Tux's colors I guess. Yellow, black and white.

    Linux is the color of fnord,

    [–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

    It's whatever the Variety app picked.

    [–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

    It's white, the sum of all colors (distros).

    Black is the lack of light, so no.

    [–] hesh@quokk.au 3 points 3 months ago

    It's whatever color you want

    [–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

    Orange like Ubuntu.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    why is debian purple? I always imagine it was white/red, which is why everytime I dock at the mothership my eyes get seared.

    [–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

    Linux is green text on a black background

    it's customizable so you can make it any colour you want

    mine is black and green (Breeze Black Plasma theme with green accent colour, black-and-green Librewolf theme, green terminal text colour in Konsole)

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

    Blue like Arch?

    #1793d1 pls...

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