May have been obvious to others, but I only caught this detail recently after using Linux for over 15 years.
It’s an attention to detail.
He is stimming, don’t make fun of him
Because despite having a boot partition Tux appears to not wear shoes
Back when the original Tux drawing was made, we didn’t have boot partitions. In LILO days, the bootloader barely fit in the MBR and the kernel was located and loaded with sheer magic incomprehensible to most mortals. So that’s why Tux has no shoes.
L I
anxious waiting followed by despair
:0
To connect to the web

This is genius and the only answer I will accept now.
What does the title mean?
“Leg hand foot italian?”
From left to right it’s Tux’s extremities as close as I could match them and then a question.
Because Linux is written in C so its easy to shoot yourself in the foot.

C doesn’t stop users from shooting themselves in the foot. C++ has new footguns added to the standard for you each version!
Better than Richard Stallman, that guy ate something off his foot in the middle of a conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
I wanted to rewatch it, but youtube wants me to verify my age for some reason, and I’m not doing that.
hold hold
Maybe he just needs to rest his arm.
His boot time is so short that he misses his boots
Maybe to get a foothold in computing.
He’s resting his hand on his foot, because having two hover-hands in a photo looks awkward, and he doesn’t have any pockets.
He’s trying to cover it up because of you foot fetishist freaks on the internet
Tux’s Gnome bias is showing
It looks better than if he wasn’t










