Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.
She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying "It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know" and "And sure, you made her trans!".
So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that's neat.
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Gonna try linux desktop again. Is there a preferred distro among people who contribute to the kernel? Not that I likely will, I just want to flatter myself lol
Fedora is a great distro that keeps its kernel and software up to date while being relatively easy to use. I don't know what contributors use, to be honest, but I believe Torvalds uses Fedora.
Probably going with this, I remember using it way back in the early 10s, and I’m pretty sure it was for that same reason (Torvalds said he uses it)
Fedora continues to win
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I switched to Fedora earlier this year with KDE Plasma desktop. I've been a faithful debloated Windows 10 user for a really long time, and I'm never looking back!
its wild how much better Plasma is than Windows DWM. i've heard people say that MS have basically ripped features from Plasma over the years too lol. figures that open source is where actual innovation occurs