• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
      10·
      5 hours ago

      Xenia is a character that lost a competition to be Linux Mascot in the nineties (to a chubby 🐧 named Tux), but was rediscovered by modern users who really latched onto her (of course they did, she’s a sassy furry hacker, crack cocaine for modern Internet users), so she’s enjoying a bit of a revival.

      This piece of art is just some silly Linux Community jokes, using the character. (the lp0 on fire panel is so cyoot)

      • agentshagsEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I want to understand the silly jokes 😭

        Maybe one of these days I’ll give Linux another whirl, at the very least so I can understand the in jokes of the Linux community.

        It’s almost like when I come across those German memes and everybody’s making comments in German and the meme was in German from the German meme community and I don’t get any of it and I just want to understand and be part of it LOL

        I guess I need to learn German and learn about Linux LOL

        e: thank you for the explanation though, it gives me more insight to the meme than I came into the thread with :)

        • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
          7·
          4 hours ago

          Because I have the kind of autism that makes me enjoy explaining things, I will now explain the jokes. It won’t make them funny, but at least you’ll get them next time. 🤓

          • System Deez Nuts – SystemD is a program that has become a central component of most distributions of Linux. It is a bit controversial (mostly because us Linux folk like to argue, see my other post on this thread) – But it’s just a Deez Nuts pun. The D in SystemD means ‘Daemon’, by the way.
          • Average PulseAudio user – PulseAudio is the component that managed sound on most Linux Distros for many years (nowadays it is slowly being phased out and replaced by Pipewire everywhere). Some people have had problems getting sound out of it. So we get Xenia with earphones that make no sound whatsoever.
          • lp0 on fire – Is an old message that Linux would spit out into its logs in the back-then times when something went very fucking wrong with the printer component of the system. It said ‘on fire’ because it was a dramatic message that would make the user go and look because it meant catastrophic type errors. So we get Xenia with a printer literally on fire.
        • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
          9·
          5 hours ago

          No, but I’ll try to answer anyway:

          • SystemD is large, it is a dependency for many things, it sort of takes over managing the entire OS, and a lot of Unix Philosophy Purists hate that about it because it goes against the idea of “one program does one thing, keep it simple”
          • SystemD is inflexible and things must adapt to its way of doing things, not the other way around, and again, people don’t like that because Linux Users all have “don’t tell me what to do” as their core philosophy (even I’m like that, I just have different priorities on what I don’t want to be told about)
          • Some people argue it slows things down. I don’t know. I never cared enough to find out. I will keep it that way because I personally have no interest.
          • … The head developer, one Lennart Poettering, is a bit of a jerk.

          That fourth one, I feel, is the real sticking point. Much like Pulseaudio (same dev), whatever merits OR defects it has as a computer program are entirely 100% irrelevant, people are just mad because the head dev posted asshole things online and that means he’s evil and everything he touches is retroactively shit.

            • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              5·
              4 hours ago

              it is actually about 70 separate programs designed from the ground up to work really well together. But since it’s one project and they are developed together, it automatically is considered a monolith and “goes against the unix philosophy”