Many years ago when meeting up with friends for drinks, one brought along her classmate/friend from out of town. I already thought she was cute, but then talking about work (as a jr. sysadmin at the time) she talks about her CS classes and that she was into Linux, so this was already “head over heels” territory for very early-twenties dork me.
So I decided to be saucy and asked her, “pico or vi?”
She immediately responded, “pico is for pussies.”
After I replaced my jaw, I did the only logical thing I could think of and proposed to her on the spot. I never saw her again.
Well its in the marketing. Most places that talk about Linux are very guy oriented. The only reason I use Linux was from way back when steam first released steam OS. Then I learned more and more about Linux and now its my primary OS. So women do use it but there is so little information about it in women tech centric content.
Most places that talk about Linux are very guy oriented.
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding this. Do you just mean that most of the people promoting it are men? Or the way that it’s promoted appeals to men more?
Look up all the people most closely related to the FOSS movement. They’re all male. From Linus himself, to the whole set of FOSS early ideologues like Stallman, all men. Even in his early days, Torvalds was specially more aggressive than usual towards women, despite being rather progressive himself in almost every way. He’s still an asshole today but has gotten better with his misogyny. He is also a bit less edgy and cringe inducing. In the US in particular, women in FOSS is a rather big deal because of how male-centric and misogynistic their tech culture is.
what are some examples of women tech centric content? I’m so entrenched in my own bubble that the only thing I can think of is maybe gaming? but even that winds up pretty male dominated afaik
It’s because the pals and gals who do enjoy Linux projects are deciding if it’s worth the chance of running into a gatekeeping ass, or if they would rather just pick a different, less-“omg ur a girl??” conversation topic.
If only, most people I’ve met, girls included, just get confused. Though I’ve met people who use Linux irl, too.
They’ve all been guys, so far.
Unless I count my sister, but she only uses it because that’s what was on my gaming laptop when she “borrowed” it for her own purposes.
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Many years ago when meeting up with friends for drinks, one brought along her classmate/friend from out of town. I already thought she was cute, but then talking about work (as a jr. sysadmin at the time) she talks about her CS classes and that she was into Linux, so this was already “head over heels” territory for very early-twenties dork me.
So I decided to be saucy and asked her, “pico or vi?”
She immediately responded, “pico is for pussies.”
After I replaced my jaw, I did the only logical thing I could think of and proposed to her on the spot. I never saw her again.
That girl’s name? Albert Einstein
She was visiting from Canada, too.
You must not have been enough of a FOSS supporter. Got to make sure you call it GNU/Linux next time, bud.
I myself prefer KDE/Systemd/GNU/Linux.
Well its in the marketing. Most places that talk about Linux are very guy oriented. The only reason I use Linux was from way back when steam first released steam OS. Then I learned more and more about Linux and now its my primary OS. So women do use it but there is so little information about it in women tech centric content.
Sorry, I’m having trouble understanding this. Do you just mean that most of the people promoting it are men? Or the way that it’s promoted appeals to men more?
Look up all the people most closely related to the FOSS movement. They’re all male. From Linus himself, to the whole set of FOSS early ideologues like Stallman, all men. Even in his early days, Torvalds was specially more aggressive than usual towards women, despite being rather progressive himself in almost every way. He’s still an asshole today but has gotten better with his misogyny. He is also a bit less edgy and cringe inducing. In the US in particular, women in FOSS is a rather big deal because of how male-centric and misogynistic their tech culture is.
what are some examples of women tech centric content? I’m so entrenched in my own bubble that the only thing I can think of is maybe gaming? but even that winds up pretty male dominated afaik
Sorry, not a girl. Just no luck finding guys who use Linux. >////<
We’re hard to find. Everyone knows we don’t go outside.
Janet?
No LUGs in your area?
It’s because the pals and gals who do enjoy Linux projects are deciding if it’s worth the chance of running into a gatekeeping ass, or if they would rather just pick a different, less-“omg ur a girl??” conversation topic.