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United, Linux fights for freedom! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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DISCLAIMER: This is not my OC ^[1][2.1][2.2]^.

  • The image is thought to have been originally shared here ^[2.1]^.
  • The poster can be purchased from the artist here ^[2.2]^.

References

  1. Type: Post. Title: "I found this piece of art in my friends' chat. I have no idea who the artist is, but it's so freakin' cool!". Author: "antonballls" ("u/Physical_Air4112"). Publisher: ["Reddit">"r/linuxmemes"]. Published: 2025-12-12T14:25:55.585Z. Accessed: 2025-12-22T03:42Z. URI: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1pkt6pa/i_found_this_piece_of_art_in_my_friends_chat_i/.
  2. Type: Post. Title: "United, Linux fights for freedom!". Author: "Kalcifer" ("@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"linuxmemes" ("!linuxmemes@lemmy.world").] Published: 2025-12-22T03:46:02Z. Accessed: 2025-12-23T08:03Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293.
    1. Type: Comment. Author: "EponymousBosh" ("@EponymousBosh@awful.systems"). Published: 2025-12-22T16:02:34Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293/22784344.

      Here’s the original source, AFAIK: https://www.tumblr.com/sirityzer/708726935428235264/my-brother-commissioned-me-to-make-some-linux

    2. Type: Comment. Author: "@Fmstrat@lemmy.world". Published: 2025-12-23T02:57:46Z. Accessed: 2025-12-22T07:59Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52020293/22793677.

      You can purchase this as a poster from the artist: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Linux-United-by-RadixRoss/160163174.LVTDI

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[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 114 points 1 month ago

Where’s the flag for Hannah Montana Linux

[-] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 73 points 1 month ago

It's way ahead of everyone else and will be the first in the line of fire.

[-] Aedis@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Right next to TempleOS

[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plot twist, they were with the axis powers

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 5 points 1 month ago

Dang it, now I have to do a reverse Italy.

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 58 points 1 month ago

Very ironic use of war propaganda, considering that Microsoft's market model is closer to the colonial powers that usually use this format - and the fact that linux often attracts anarchists due to its open, collaborative design.

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is there specific war propaganda this is mirroring? Propaganda isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's very helpful in revolutionary resistance movements. Is this mirroring something specific or are you just talking about the aesthetics of it?

[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 80 points 1 month ago

It's a well-known propaganda poster from WW2.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Union Jack represented multiple times

🤔

[-] whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Yes, how did those pesky English manage to add their symbol to all these other flags?

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[-] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

It‘s anti-fascist ww2 propaganda

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Famously, peaceful movements don't use a lot of propaganda posters.

Maybe we ask Shepard Fairey to do one for us? Or just some psychedelic 70's concert poster with distros?

Edit: Don't crucify me for using AI:

Edit 2: People downvoting, I was using AI as the tool it's meant to be - a quick first draft, proof of concept to sort out ideas. I'm not going to spend hours mocking up both of these for a comment on a meme. I will spend time on one of them, maybe, later. Real human time with 10 fingers and eyes that aren't all squishy.

[-] percent@infosec.pub 8 points 1 month ago
  • ARCH LINUK
  • ELEMENTART OS
  • POPI OS
  • KALLLINUX
[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Elementart, my dear Whomp whomp!

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I like the style and mistakes of the 60s style one. Elemen Tart Os, KaLLLinux, the guitar strings at the headstock

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[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

crucifies you anyway

[-] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I am not going to crucify you.

I will hang you on a comma!

Or in this case, on the robot's bad spelling.

ARCH LINUK
ELEMENTART OS
POPI. OS
KALLILINUX

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 25 points 1 month ago

We fight for the users!

[-] nagaram@startrek.website 25 points 1 month ago

My life for Super Users!

[-] Evil_Shrubbery 24 points 1 month ago

(openSUSE represented in a meme? What a day!)

Imagine a KDE destroyer (kestroyer?) shattering your Windows from miles away!

[-] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

You mean a KDEstroyer

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Linux users, united?

People in this community will cry over what init system or desktop environment somebody else uses.

[-] creature@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, because they have the freedom to even make those choices in the first place, lmao.

You can be united under democracy and by necessity still disagree over different ideas

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

get out of here with your moderate, nuanced viewpoint!

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Listen "friend", I don't take kindly to you critiquing my choice in text editor like that when you've clearly chosen a slightly different one. I think it might be best if you just move along.

[-] littleomid@feddit.org 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don’t understand what I’m looking at. Who is carrying the flags? The ship? The planes?

[-] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 28 points 1 month ago

our hearts

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[-] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Nyarch supremacy

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

You can purchase this as a poster from the artist: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Linux-United-by-RadixRoss/160163174.LVTDI

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You da real MVP

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[-] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Here's the original source, AFAIK: https://www.tumblr.com/sirityzer/708726935428235264/my-brother-commissioned-me-to-make-some-linux

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thank you! I have added your link to the body of my post.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

United my ass

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

United in their disdain for windows maybe

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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Black and Red. Gonna have to say I'll be with the Debian boys during the revolution.

[-] halvar@lemy.lol 6 points 1 month ago

Linux Undivided

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Why is Cent OS there? It's dead.

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[-] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 5 points 1 month ago

Which distro uses this android as its logo? Purple flag.

[-] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

That's Tails, and I think it represents a USB-stick with a smiley face.

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[-] percent@infosec.pub 7 points 1 month ago

Depending on which flag, either Tails or Gentoo

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Tails I think

[-] drq@mastodon.ml 4 points 1 month ago

@Kalcifer Epic!

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

The only one I cannot remember off the top of my head right now is the one directly behind Kali. I'm gonna have to check online because I think I know what it is, but I know it's not Whonix.

Did some looking while writing this comment and can't find it right now, so I'll probably leave an edit when I do.

[-] addie@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

The Centos "eight pointed star"?

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah. Looks like I completely missed it because DistroWatch has a different logo design without all the colours. Thanks.

[-] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Manjaro and ZorinOs instead of EndeavourOS and Bazzite is criminal.

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