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So what color *is* Linux exactly? Is it black like Tux and the terminal? Purple like Debian? Blue like Arch?
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RomulusCornflakes lemmy.world RomulusCornflakes@lemmy.world
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Dr. Quadragon ❌ mastodon.ml drq@mastodon.ml
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@RomulusCornflakes It's black like an anarchist flag.

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cosmicrose lemmy.blahaj.zone cosmicrose@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-01-22
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All of them, it’s a rainbow 🌈

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VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt lemmy.world VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-25
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Mine is black with bright green text. Dunno what you other weirdos are doing

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kutsyk_alexander lemmy.world kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#5 · Quote Reply

Orange like Ubuntu.

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Marduk73 sh.itjust.works Marduk73@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-12
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I can hear my hair growing

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👍Maximum Derek👍 discuss.tchncs.de Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-21
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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).

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Durandal lemmy.today Durandal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-03
#8 · Quote Reply

Love Linux sees no color. 🐧

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Hule lemmy.world Hule@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-19
#9 · (edited) Quote Reply

I can hear my hair growing

You still have hair?!

Edit: I have hair in my ears, does that count?

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ieatpwns lemmy.world ieatpwns@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-09
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Azure

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badlotus discuss.online badlotus@discuss.online
Joined: 2024-11-25
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@RomulusCornflakes It's black like an anarchist flag.

Beat me to it. Red and black!

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KindaABigDyl programming.dev KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-14
#12 · Quote Reply

Blue

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abbadon420 sh.itjust.works abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-28
#13 · Quote Reply

Azure

My lawn, your entire family

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gegil sopuli.xyz gegil@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-15
#14 · Quote Reply

Color of linux is whatever color scheme you want to use.

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abbadon420 sh.itjust.works abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-28
#15 · Quote Reply

It's color is not on the visible spectrum, but a whole different kind of spectrum.

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ji59 hilariouschaos.com ji59@hilariouschaos.com
Joined: 2024-11-07
#16 · Quote Reply

It's color is not on the visible spectrum, but a whole different kind of spectrum.

So, X-Ray?

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ray sh.itjust.works ray@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-10
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Color of linux is whatever color scheme you want to use.

Unless you use GNOME. Then your options are grey or black.

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hesh quokk.au hesh@quokk.au
Joined: 2026-01-04
#18 · Quote Reply

It's whatever color you want

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Oisteink lemmy.world Oisteink@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
#19 · Quote Reply

Linux isn’t a colour, it’s a spectrum.

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Oisteink lemmy.world Oisteink@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
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Linux isn’t a colour, it’s a spectrum.

And it changes based on who’s using it

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Ftumch lemmy.today Ftumch@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-02-13
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All of them, it’s a rainbow 🌈

Linux can be all colors in the rainbow (white) or no colors at all (black). Linux is black, white and everything in between.

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gegil sopuli.xyz gegil@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2025-06-15
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Unless you use GNOME. Then your options are grey or black.

Is gnome areald ez ywan6ile ui ported to desktop?

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Endymion_Mallorn kbin.melroy.org Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Joined: 2024-11-17
#23 · Quote Reply

Linux is the color of fnord,

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warmaster lemmy.world warmaster@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#24 · Quote Reply

It's white, the sum of all colors (distros).

Black is the lack of light, so no.

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quediuspayu lemmy.dbzer0.com quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-06
#25 · Quote Reply

IDK. Octarine, probably.

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#26 · Quote Reply

And it changes based on who’s using it

*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.

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
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why is debian purple? I always imagine it was white/red, which is why everytime I dock at the mothership my eyes get seared.

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palordrolap fedia.io palordrolap@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-13
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Unless you use GNOME. Then your options are grey or black.

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.

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Ooops feddit.org Ooops@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-06
#29 · Quote Reply

Blue like Arch?

#1793d1 pls...

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palordrolap fedia.io palordrolap@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-13
#30 · Quote Reply

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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Ek-Hou-Van-Braai piefed.social Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-05-14
#31 · Quote Reply

Yes

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LumpyPancakes piefed.social BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-20
#32 · Quote Reply

It's whatever the Variety app picked.

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cally [he/they] pawb.social callyral@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-09-14
#33 · Quote Reply

Purple like Debian?

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Marduk73 sh.itjust.works Marduk73@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-12
#34 · Quote Reply

You still have hair?! Edit: I have hair in my ears, does that count?

You can hear it better in your ears

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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-12
#35 · Quote Reply

So what colour is a car anyway? Black like a car, purple like a car? Blue like a car?

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Entertain529 lemmy.ml Entertain529@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-03-29
#36 · Quote Reply

Red like Xenia!

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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
#37 · Quote Reply

Purple like Debian?

You know... Debian:

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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
#38 · Quote Reply

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Debian: Don't complain, she calls me Old Ubuntu!

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deathbird mander.xyz deathbird@mander.xyz
Joined: 2022-03-24
#39 · Quote Reply

Like, what are the iconic colors of Linux? The equivalent to the MS blue?

Tux's colors I guess. Yellow, black and white.

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ColdWater lemmy.ca ColdWater@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-08-09
#40 · Quote Reply

This colors: 🏳️‍🌈

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yogurtwrong lemmy.world yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#41 · Quote Reply

It's color is not on the visible spectrum, but a whole different kind of spectrum.

autism spectrum

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gnufuu infosec.pub gnufuu@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-03-05
#42 · Quote Reply

Transparency

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Samskara sh.itjust.works Samskara@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-03-04
#43 · Quote Reply

White on black tty is the common denominator of all Linux distros, I have tried.

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msrb711 feddit.org msrb711@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-01-20
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This colors: 🏳️‍🌈

Ah! A man of culture.

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msrb711 feddit.org msrb711@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-01-20
#45 · Quote Reply

So what colour is a car anyway? Black like a car, purple like a car? Blue like a car?

There's a famous Henry Ford quote: "Our customers can get a car in any color they like as long that color is black"

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Digit lemmy.wtf Digit@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2023-10-29
#46 · Quote Reply

There's a famous Henry Ford quote: "Our customers can get a car in any color they like as long that color is black"

Henry Ford was not into open source development.

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msrb711 feddit.org msrb711@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-01-20
#47 · Quote Reply

Henry Ford was not into open source development.

How come? 😂

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iuminou lemmy.dbzer0.com thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-09-12
#48 · Quote Reply

Purple like Debian?

Debian purple edition

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iuminou lemmy.dbzer0.com thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-09-12
#49 · Quote Reply

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)

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Digit lemmy.wtf Digit@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2023-10-29
#50 · Quote Reply

How come? 😂

I don't understand the question...

... Is it like you want an exploration of his psyche?

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msrb711 feddit.org msrb711@feddit.org
Joined: 2026-01-20
#51 · Quote Reply

I don't understand the question... ... Is it like you want an exploration of his psyche?

get a car in any color they like as long that color is black”

He couldn't have been into open source development since he died way before the concept was invented

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