Free dmesg probs T-Shirt giveaway — show off your Linux

[hydn (Hayden James)]

It’s that time near the end of the month when we give away a free t-shirt to members of the Linux community.

This round we’re changing it up a little. We are giving away our dmesg your probs T-Shirts to two members who post a screenshot of their current Linux desktop.

Could be your daily driver, a fresh install, a tiling WM masterpiece, or just your boring-but-comfy setup. Whatever you’re running right now, show it off.

Two winners will be picked at random from everyone who posts a screenshot.

shuf -n 2 participants.txt

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Drop your screenshot below. Looking forward to seeing what everyone’s running.

All members can participate; however, only members who have not previously received a free LinuxCommunity.io T-shirt will be selected.

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Entries close Thursday night, April 30th 2026 and winners drawn Friday. Shipping is worldwide.

[hydn (Hayden James)]

I’ll kick things off with the first post good luck and have fun!

[toadie]

Here is mine today

[ericmarceau]

Love the image of Uranus showing its rings! Also, excellent thinking for the initiative!

For myself, I wouldn’t wear that particular T-shirt because it doesn’t have enough “punch” for me, and not enough of the Public would even understand our insider techie jargon.

May I suggest the following for a future round?

Some informative articles:

• Linux Adoption Rate by Country [2026]
• Linux Grows on Government Systems
• The political use of operating systems

[hydn (Hayden James)]

Haha! I like that one. As long as it’s open and available to use, should be able to as a one off.

You are right about the niche. I was in NOLA almost 2 years ago and a guy said he saw the dmesg your problems on the back of the shirt and we had a brief conversation because of it. lol.

But other than Linux events, 99/100 people won’t get the reference. So it is really cool when someone knows because right away you know they are - at the very least- a beginner with Linux.

Edit: PS, I got that wallpaper from here:

Neptune, Solar System, digital art, astronomy, black background, planet,...

[ericmarceau]

I just created that, so it’s all yours if you want it!

I just sent you the file privately via email.

[Brian_Masinick]

[Brian_Masinick]

[hydn (Hayden James)]

Received. Let me see what I can do.

Edit: Eric has shared the design with the community so winners will have the choice of either this new mission critical T-Shirt (dark)

…or the dmesg t-shirt (dark) pictured in the first post.

[Brian_Masinick]

I do enjoy Linux T-shirts, but if the supply is low, I’m more than willing to have others enjoy the choices first and if there are any left over, I’d enjoy one too.

[hydn (Hayden James)]

Congrats to the winners @toadie @Brian_Masinick

They can choose between receiving one of these Linuxcommunity.io T-shirt designs:

dmesg probs T-Shirt (dark)

mission critical T-Shirt (dark)

A genuine thank you to everyone who took part and to those who followed along. These giveaways are a way of showing appreciation for the people who make this place what it is. Thank you.

I’ll be tweaking the format a bit for the next round, longer entry window and a lower bar to enter, so more of you can jump in without overthinking it. Stay tuned, more is on the way!