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    [–] dr_robotBones@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

    Linux is green text on a black background

    [–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    And it changes based on who’s using it

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    All of them, it’s a rainbow 🌈

    [–] Ftumch@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

    [–] ray@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

    Is gnome areald ez ywan6ile ui ported to desktop?

    [–] mech@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] Durandal@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago

    ~~Love~~ Linux sees no color. 🐧

    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    This colors: πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

    [–] msrb711@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

    Ah! A man of culture.

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

    [–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

    [–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

    autism spectrum

    [–] ji59@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 1 week ago
    [–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

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

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] badlotus@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago

    Beat me to it. Red and black!

    [–] callyral@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] mech@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

    You know... Debian:

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 hours ago

    Henry Ford was not into open source development.

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week 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 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    My lawn, your entire family

    IDK. Octarine, probably.

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

    I can hear my hair growing

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

    You still have hair?!

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

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

    You can hear it better in your ears

    [–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago

    Transparency

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 1 week 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.

    It's whatever the Variety app picked.

    [–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week 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,

    [–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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

    Black is the lack of light, so no.

    Orange like Ubuntu.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

    [–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

    Blue like Arch?

    #1793d1 pls...

    [–] hesh@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

    It's whatever color you want