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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    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      14 days ago

      i was using the i3-compatible Wayland thingy for a while and like my laptop would use like 3.5 watts of power lol. It was so good. I rebound a bunch of keys in Plasma to match that and while it doesnt have tiling a more keyboard focused window management flow is super much better on my wrists. It turns out having just “left half” and “right half” tiling was enough for me, plus 4 virtual desktops which I use in a role-based fashion. Of course, when i hook up and external monitor everything gets weird but I still appreciate everything I learned from tiling.

      • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        14 days ago

        tiling is so nice. for me it’s like, I prefer a mouse oriented workflow on my PC, I’m often just leaned back in my chair with one hand on the mouse and I’m pretty snappy at flinging windows around at 1500dpi. on a laptop I’m the complete opposite, like to avoid using the mouse as much as possible so i3 is perfect.