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    [–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 207 points 1 week ago (5 children)
    [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    i'm tagging you as "admitted to wearing mid-calf black socks with sandals and cargo pants at the same time"

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    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 week ago

    Those are not thigh-highs.

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    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 188 points 1 week ago (4 children)
    [–] lena 51 points 1 week ago

    Ubuntu user here, can confirm

    [–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Very snappy.

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    [–] Luci@lemmy.ca 128 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 62 points 1 week ago (3 children)
    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

    ironically Debian is the straightest OS, it's named after the creator and his girlfriend who became his wife and he had kids with

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock

    He named Debian after his then-girlfriend (later wife) Debra Lynn Roundy, and himself.[4] They later married, had three children, and divorced in January 2008.[5]

    Although obviously, straight people can make things for lesbians/lesbians can use things made by straight people (and they often do!)

    EDIT : I missed the obvious joke : Debian > ebian > (L)e(s)bian(s)

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    [–] ezeno789@piefed.social 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] teft@piefed.social 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Can confirm - LMDE is made for lesbians.

    [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

    For lesbians, by lesbians, with lesbians.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    [–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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    [–] rem26_art@fedia.io 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Gentoo requires you to grow the cotton, process it, and then knit the thigh-highs yourself

    [–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

    Nah, it's both of them. The difference is, Gentoo gives you a cotton gin and a loom.

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I use Linux Mint at work and Pop!OS at home. Sorry to disappoint.

    [–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    For all we know, those could be thigh high socks

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    [–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    damnit, ordered the wrong color socks AGAIN. Wish the arch wiki would have this documented.

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Arch comes without socks by default. It's up to you which ones you ~~install~~ buy.

    [–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I used ~~archinstall~~ archsockbuy

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    [–] oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

    [ Edit: I didn't understand the meme! See comments for context.]

    Can we choose to stop having teenage girl manga leg fetish memes associated with Linux? That's my choice because it's not the 90s any more and I'm a middle-aged beardy father of three daughters. This meme is totally seedy and doesn't do any favours for Linux or Open Source.

    It's not particularly funny and we can come up with far better memes without making it seem (yet again) like Linux might be mostly for creepy basement-dwelling nerds who haven't met many real women and who aren't creating a welcoming community which truly views women as something more than sex objects.

    It's dinosaur-era shit, guys. Please make better memes!

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 41 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    I have the opposite reaction when I see these memes. To me it's a reminder of how inclusive some of my favorite nerdy communities are, on top of being a fun little in-joke like any meme should be. And I'm an old beardy middle aged dad too for whatever that's worth.

    However, that doesn't mean the image itself is innocent or appropriate for most audiences. I'm not going to be asking the family's opinion on this one, lol. But I don't see it as a manga fetish thing at all. More empowerment than exploitation for the owners of the legs shown.

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    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I like the way this comment assumes the unix socks meme is perpetuated by horny neckbeards, not horny transwomen.

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    [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    I think the socks thing is more of a reference to trans people (or femboys or however they liked to be called) who like linux

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    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Yeah let's get back to older better times :-)

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    [–] deathbird@mander.xyz 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    What's this got to do with women?

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    [–] FGoo@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

    EndeavourOS. Not the easiest to find.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 29 points 1 week ago
    [–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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    Stop putting your legs up on your desk. You should be putting them on MY LAP.

    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)
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    [–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    Those legs look weak. What Linux is this?

    [–] twack@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

    That's just straight up Unix, the mother of it all.

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    [–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Arch looking so hot rn

    I use peasant arch btw

    [–] Olap@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

    Ankle socks for you

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    As someone who is firmly in the greybeard mould, I ain't shaving my legs for this.

    [–] janus2@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    that's half the point of thigh highs, you don't have to shave lol

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    [–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
    [–] gari_9812@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

    EndeavourOS

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