The penguin is merciful.

Think ~~Different~~ Freely.

Your hardware Your choice Your style

When I started my own design for Tux I came up with "it's all about U" written on the repo where I've developed it (upstream isn't updated)

In hindsight it involuntarily highlights the difference between the open source and the free software movement pretty well, I'm definitely for the latter, but it is accurate to the product and its creator

more powerful than a speeding loco motive

"Get judged by more advanced Linux users until you get good enough to do the judging"

Linux: We never would have given you Klippy.

WHEEL OF LINUX!!! (I'll take Arch, by the way, Pat!)

Linux: Our Code of Conduct says we have to let you join us.

The only operating with so many names, but always the same experience... Linux!

From Hobby to Hero: Linux Powers the Curious

• 'You can keep your old hardware, we won't force you to upgrade.'
• 'Your old GPU, yes, even your R9 Fury, still has a home here, don't worry, we won't leave you out in the cold unlike our competition.'

...Among other jabs at Windows in the spirit of the old Mac vs. PC ads, or to be more apt, in the spirit of Sega's old ads picking on Nintendo in the '90s.

Also....

• 'Linux does! What Windon't.'

Leave us alone, we don't need more users

"Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it's Linux, G"

Virtue by default, Linux.

From one of my memes (which compares the common 3 OS types): https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3ad94e0f-c145-4b1b-9a41-16f3ebcfee1b.webp

It will hurt the whole way down. Please don't climb.

Also implies that you can actually climb it (metaphorical for "learning") and has the option to stay above or climb down. Based on the image, its an art project that just stays there for you to explore.

Linux: The home for Windows and MacOS refugees.

For the Mavericks and Makers

"Be free"

Linux: Where all your personal data already exists in the cloud.

Linux: The Vi delivery system you've been waiting for! /s

improvements over the competition are black and white... and a little yellow.