DISCLAIMER: This is not my OC ^[1][2.1][2.2]^.
- The image is thought to have been originally shared here ^[2.1]^.
- The poster can be purchased from the artist here ^[2.2]^.
::: spoiler References
- Type: Post. Title: "I found this piece of art in my friends' chat. I have no idea who the artist is, but it's so freakin' cool!". Author: "antonballls" ("u/Physical_Air4112"). Publisher: ["Reddit">"r/linuxmemes"]. Published: 2025-12-12T14:25:55.585Z. Accessed: 2025-12-22T03:42Z. URI: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1pkt6pa/i_found_this_piece_of_art_in_my_friends_chat_i/.
- Type: Post. Title: "United, Linux fights for freedom!". Author: "Kalcifer" ("@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"linuxmemes" ("!linuxmemes@lemmy.world").] Published: 2025-12-22T03:46:02Z. Accessed: 2025-12-23T08:03Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293.
- Type: Comment. Author: "EponymousBosh" ("@EponymousBosh@awful.systems"). Published: 2025-12-22T16:02:34Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293/22784344.
Here’s the original source, AFAIK: https://www.tumblr.com/sirityzer/708726935428235264/my-brother-commissioned-me-to-make-some-linux
- Type: Comment. Author: "@Fmstrat@lemmy.world". Published: 2025-12-23T02:57:46Z. Accessed: 2025-12-22T07:59Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293/22793677.
You can purchase this as a poster from the artist: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Linux-United-by-RadixRoss/160163174.LVTDI :::
- Type: Comment. Author: "EponymousBosh" ("@EponymousBosh@awful.systems"). Published: 2025-12-22T16:02:34Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293/22784344.
75 Comments
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 115 pts · 232d
Where’s the flag for Hannah Montana Linux
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 73 pts · 232d
It's way ahead of everyone else and will be the first in the line of fire.
Aedis@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 232d
Right next to TempleOS
Siegfried@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 232d
Plot twist, they were with the axis powers
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 232d
Dang it, now I have to do a reverse Italy.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 58 pts · 232d
Very ironic use of war propaganda, considering that Microsoft's market model is closer to the colonial powers that usually use this format - and the fact that linux often attracts anarchists due to its open, collaborative design.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 232d
Is there specific war propaganda this is mirroring? Propaganda isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's very helpful in revolutionary resistance movements. Is this mirroring something specific or are you just talking about the aesthetics of it?
zloubida@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 232d
It's a well-known propaganda poster from WW2.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 232d
🤔
whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 232d
Yes, how did those pesky English manage to add their symbol to all these other flags?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 232d
British, not English.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 231d
Cool. So it's the good propaganda.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 232d
It‘s anti-fascist ww2 propaganda
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 232d
Famously, peaceful movements don't use a lot of propaganda posters.
Maybe we ask Shepard Fairey to do one for us? Or just some psychedelic 70's concert poster with distros?
Edit: Don't crucify me for using AI:
Edit 2: People downvoting, I was using AI as the tool it's meant to be - a quick first draft, proof of concept to sort out ideas. I'm not going to spend hours mocking up both of these for a comment on a meme. I will spend time on one of them, maybe, later. Real human time with 10 fingers and eyes that aren't all squishy.
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 29 pts · 232d
crucifies you for using AI
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 232d
percent@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 232d
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 232d
Elementart, my dear Whomp whomp!
percent@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 232d
Happy cake day 🙂
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
Thanks!
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 231d
I did not see your comment before I posted my own spelling corrections, you beat me to it
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 232d
I like the style and mistakes of the 60s style one. Elemen Tart Os, KaLLLinux, the guitar strings at the headstock
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 232d
Thanks for actual feedback.
I also like the style, but the concert poster version would be much easier to mock-up in gimp. Though, it looks like most psychedelic concert posters were for single acts, not festivals, as would work best for a lineup of distros. I'll see what happens.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 232d
in this case, the proper human artist would also be hallucinating
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 232d
crucifies you anyway
DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 231d
I am not going to crucify you.
I will hang you on a comma!
Or in this case, on the robot's bad spelling.
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 231d
Gimp is free 💔
GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
JFC, I'm using it NOW to make a real version! It was a proof of concept use! Y'all are so blinded by hate.
nagaram@startrek.website · 25 pts · 232d
My life for Super Users!
not_me@piefed.social · 3 pts · 232d
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 25 pts · 232d
We fight for the users!
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 24 pts · 232d
(openSUSE represented in a meme? What a day!)
Imagine a KDE destroyer (kestroyer?) shattering your Windows from miles away!
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 232d
You mean a KDEstroyer
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 232d
Linux users, united?
People in this community will cry over what init system or desktop environment somebody else uses.
creature@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 231d
Yeah, because they have the freedom to even make those choices in the first place, lmao.
You can be united under democracy and by necessity still disagree over different ideas
kieron115@startrek.website · 3 pts · 231d
get out of here with your moderate, nuanced viewpoint!
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 232d
Listen "friend", I don't take kindly to you critiquing my choice in text editor like that when you've clearly chosen a slightly different one. I think it might be best if you just move along.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 232d
Nyarch supremacy
littleomid@feddit.org · 16 pts · 232d
I don’t understand what I’m looking at. Who is carrying the flags? The ship? The planes?
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 29 pts · 232d
our hearts
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 232d
I thought it was the MCP from Tron draped in flags
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 231d
You can purchase this as a poster from the artist: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Linux-United-by-RadixRoss/160163174.LVTDI
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 231d
You da real MVP
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 231d
Thank you for sharing! I have added your link to the body of my post.
EponymousBosh@awful.systems · 10 pts · 232d
Here's the original source, AFAIK: https://www.tumblr.com/sirityzer/708726935428235264/my-brother-commissioned-me-to-make-some-linux
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 232d
Thank you! I have added your link to the body of my post.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 232d
United my ass
embed_me@programming.dev · 6 pts · 231d
United in their disdain for windows maybe
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 226d
Could you elaborate on what you mean? 🙂
Jarix@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 226d
Yeah! I'll throw an edit to this response later! Just got to an event and the edible just kicked in. Have a great night!
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 232d
Black and Red. Gonna have to say I'll be with the Debian boys during the revolution.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 231d
Why is Cent OS there? It's dead.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 231d
But his soul is marching on...
halvar@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 232d
Linux Undivided
Tealk@rollenspiel.forum · 5 pts · 232d
Which distro uses this android as its logo? Purple flag.
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 10 pts · 232d
That's Tails, and I think it represents a USB-stick with a smiley face.
Tealk@rollenspiel.forum · 1 pts · 232d
Now that you mention it, I see it too, but it really does look like a blocky android xD
percent@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 232d
Depending on which flag, either Tails or Gentoo
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 4 pts · 232d
Tails I think
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 232d
The only one I cannot remember off the top of my head right now is the one directly behind Kali. I'm gonna have to check online because I think I know what it is, but I know it's not Whonix.
Did some looking while writing this comment and can't find it right now, so I'll probably leave an edit when I do.
addie@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 232d
The Centos "eight pointed star"?
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 232d
Yeah. Looks like I completely missed it because DistroWatch has a different logo design without all the colours. Thanks.
drq@mastodon.ml · 4 pts · 232d
@Kalcifer Epic!
spicehoarder@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 231d
Manjaro and ZorinOs instead of EndeavourOS and Bazzite is criminal.
Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 232d
Cool. Ill be hanging this in my office today.
nialv7@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 232d
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 232d
I want a linux phone. I won't replace my Samsung s23 until I can get one.
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 230d
not all fight for freedom quite to the fullest of the original ideal ... https://gnu.org/philosophy
Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 226d
Do you have some examples?
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 226d
Examples of those who do not fight for freedom quite to the fullest of the original ideal?
Too many. In distribution, arguably pretty much any that are not on this list: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html (and more, and more info, here: https://www.gnu.org/distros/ ).
Examples of individuals... pretty much any who say "open source" instead of "free software" (or "software libre").
While Linus Torvalds often emphatically reaffirms he made the right decision to use the GNU GPLv2 for the Linux kernel's license, you may notice he also falls into this category of "open source" advocacy. So then, the title of this post, "United, Linux fights for freedom!" causes a wry smile for more than just the "United". ;D
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 232d
I worked on United Linux.
It was an over-engineered mess with half its guts ripped out before it was kicked over a fence at us -- SuSE-style 'collaboration'.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 232d
is there a freedom os thats basically only {distro} but only open source drivers and theming that looks like union posters?
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 232d
Parabola (GNU/Linux-libre) is Arch but STRICTLY open-source.
It's not very easy to find a download for the ISO tho...
obscur_3@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 232d
Cloud
obscur_3@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 232d
Wrong comment reply
griesemaster@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 231d
Yeah... this is way too similar in style to legit Nazi propaganda for me to engage with.
menas@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 232d
I'm found of debian; however, a community that define free as "free to use you code to be used by military", is not fighting for freedom
DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 232d