Linux Distros as Street Fashion

Description

A two-row collage maps different Linux distributions to photos of older men wearing distinctive street outfits. The visible distro labels and logos are "gentoo linux", "debian", "red hat", "fedora", "arch linux", "ubuntu", "elementary OS", and "Linux Mint". Each person is posed differently and dressed in a way that implies a stereotype for that distro, from austere and utilitarian to eccentric, fashionable, or casually mismatched. The humor depends on Linux community tribalism: distro choice becomes a personality, wardrobe, and social identity signal.

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The package manager is the personality test; the outfit is just the post-install script.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The package manager is the personality test; the outfit is just the post-install script.
@maksym_x 4y

Slavik, the homeless man
@karim_mahyari 4y

All hail Linux Mint (never used it, gonna give it a try sometime)
@Iplay2hours 4y

Astra Linux?
dev_meme 4y

we in Iraq, Sunday is not holiday, its very crowded day
dev_meme 4y

("
@a_desant 4y

What about Kyiv безхатько (homeless man)
@andriikosaniak 4y

Damn, that's a local famous homeless guy from my city (Lviv).
1. @a_desant 4y
  
  I thought he's from Kyiv
  
  @andriikosaniak 4y
  
  https://tsn.ua/exclusive/modni-obrazi-lvivskogo-bezhatka-slavika-skopiyuvav-francuzkiy-brend-odyagu-1837933.html
  
  @a_desant 4y
  
  Oopsey, sorry, you're right
2. @romanovich_dev 4y
  
  Not only Yours. Me also in city
@gorqmorq 4y

Show me Kali
Deleted Account 4y

how about Red Star OS
@RiedleroD 4y

not sure what this meme even means