May have been obvious to others, but I only caught this detail recently after using Linux for over 15 years.

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[–] 95 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago

    hold hold

    Maybe he just needs to rest his arm.

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Because despite having a boot partition Tux appears to not wear shoes

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Back when the original Tux drawing was made, we didn't have boot partitions. In LILO days, the bootloader barely fit in the MBR and the kernel was located and loaded with sheer magic incomprehensible to most mortals. So that's why Tux has no shoes.

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  • [–] 116 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Because Linux is written in C so its easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

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    Maybe we should change the Tux image once they rewrite the Kernel completely on Rust to him wearing armour since it is difficult to fuck up in Rust lol.

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    He's resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn't have any pockets.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    It looks better than if he wasn’t

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago*

    That's where it shot itself in the foot.

    It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.

    s/UNIX/Linux/g

    https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/terry-lambert-quote-it-is-not-unixs-job-to-stop-you/

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Poor dude has plantar fasciitis, he's trying to stretch it.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago*

    He is stimming, don't make fun of him

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Better than Richard Stallman, that guy ate something off his foot in the middle of a conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ

    I wanted to rewatch it, but youtube wants me to verify my age for some reason, and I'm not doing that.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    this is the mandildo effect in action dude

    I could have sworn he had both arms on his side

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Maybe to get a foothold in computing.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Tux's Gnome bias is showing

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    He's trying to cover it up because of you foot fetishist freaks on the internet

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    That’s because he’s very serious about this year being the year of the Linux desktop.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    What does the title mean?

    "Leg hand foot italian?"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It's an attention to detail.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    To prevent it from falling off: everything is holding on snot and ribbons in Linux.

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