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.
He couldn’t have been into open source development since he died way before the concept was invented
... since before the concept was named and re-named.
The concept was originally the norm, and only needed formalising and naming (and re-naming) after the egregious secrecy of the proprietary model became so suffocating.
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).
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.
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Oisteink@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 160d
Linux isn’t a colour, it’s a spectrum.
Oisteink@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 160d
And it changes based on who’s using it
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 160d
*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 · 35 pts · 161d
All of them, it’s a rainbow 🌈
Ftumch@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 160d
Linux can be all colors in the rainbow (white) or no colors at all (black). Linux is black, white and everything in between.
mech@feddit.org · 21 pts · 160d
::: spoiler alt text Debian: Don't complain, she calls me Old Ubuntu! :::
gegil@sopuli.xyz · 19 pts · 161d
Color of linux is whatever color scheme you want to use.
ray@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 160d
Unless you use GNOME. Then your options are grey or black.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 160d
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 pts · 160d
Is gnome areald ez ywan6ile ui ported to desktop?
ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 160d
This colors: 🏳️🌈
msrb711@feddit.org · 1 pts · 160d
Ah! A man of culture.
Durandal@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 161d
LoveLinux sees no color. 🐧VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 161d
Mine is black with bright green text. Dunno what you other weirdos are doing
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 161d
It's color is not on the visible spectrum, but a whole different kind of spectrum.
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 160d
autism spectrum
ji59@hilariouschaos.com · 2 pts · 160d
So, X-Ray?
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 160d
White on black tty is the common denominator of all Linux distros, I have tried.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 160d
So what colour is a car anyway? Black like a car, purple like a car? Blue like a car?
msrb711@feddit.org · 3 pts · 160d
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 pts · 153d
Henry Ford was not into open source development.
msrb711@feddit.org · 1 pts · 151d
How come? 😂
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 149d
I don't understand the question...
... Is it like you want an exploration of his psyche?
msrb711@feddit.org · 1 pts · 148d
He couldn't have been into open source development since he died way before the concept was invented
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 147d
... since before the concept was named and re-named.
The concept was originally the norm, and only needed formalising and naming (and re-naming) after the egregious secrecy of the proprietary model became so suffocating.
drq@mastodon.ml · 10 pts · 161d
@RomulusCornflakes It's black like an anarchist flag.
badlotus@discuss.online · 5 pts · 161d
Beat me to it. Red and black!
callyral@pawb.social · 9 pts · 160d
Purple like Debian?
mech@feddit.org · 10 pts · 160d
You know... Debian:
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 149d
Debian purple edition
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 160d
IDK. Octarine, probably.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 161d
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).
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social · 7 pts · 160d
Yes
ieatpwns@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 161d
Azure
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 161d
My lawn, your entire family
Entertain529@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 160d
Red like Xenia!
gnufuu@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 160d
Transparency
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 160d
Linux is the color of fnord,
Marduk73@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 161d
I can hear my hair growing
Hule@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d
You still have hair?!
Edit: I have hair in my ears, does that count?
Marduk73@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 160d
You can hear it better in your ears
palordrolap@fedia.io · 5 pts · 160d
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.
deathbird@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 160d
Like, what are the iconic colors of Linux? The equivalent to the MS blue?
Tux's colors I guess. Yellow, black and white.
KindaABigDyl@programming.dev · 4 pts · 161d
Blue
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 4 pts · 160d
It's whatever the Variety app picked.
hesh@quokk.au · 3 pts · 161d
It's whatever color you want
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
why is debian purple? I always imagine it was white/red, which is why everytime I dock at the mothership my eyes get seared.
warmaster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 160d
It's white, the sum of all colors (distros).
Black is the lack of light, so no.
kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 161d
Orange like Ubuntu.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 149d
it's customizable so you can make it any colour you want
mine is black and green (Breeze Black Plasma theme with green accent colour, black-and-green Librewolf theme, green terminal text colour in Konsole)
Ooops@feddit.org · 2 pts · 160d
#1793d1 pls...
dr_robotBones@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 157d
Linux is green text on a black background