Lol. The first thing I ever asked her was "PC or console?" She replied "PC". The rest is history.
Every once I a while she asks me what would have happened if she answered "Console" and obviously I reply "We wouldn't be together!"
Ona serious note, it was something I promised myself, that I would only be with a woman who was into gaming. I wouldn't even consider someone who didn't share it as a hobby.
Previous relationships had shown me how important it was.
i envy the functionality of normal people, until i see someone engaging in a "normal" relationship. Then i immediately remember that i don't have things so bad, and that i should focus on what makes my life enjoyable.
Anyway, i have i3 to configure, and other problems to ignore, i will go about my day now.
Now you're just confusing cause and effect. Your life doesn't need to be Linux because of some external event that sucks, it's because of Linux that your life sucks.
I'm an imposter. I run Win11 because work and home needs require some Windows only software. I do run Linux servers and i use WSL. So that one person I know isn't me.
shitposting aside, I have win 10 installed on an ssd in my main rig, but i haven't seriously booted it in years by now. I'm in the process of eventually "decommissioning" it, so i put it into an old thinkpad i have lying around.
There's dozens of us, I swear! I know a few more too! I also load it on to hardware I upcycle for charity and I know a few went to women. :) Everyone can get comfortable with Mint. It's easier than Windows these days.
I knew one once, but she was borderline abused into it by her boyfriend. The same guy made me a linux user. He is quite succesful at that, if only he knew how to take a shower.
The thing is that unfortunately women receive a lot of harassment online, so they'll often use a gender-neutral or male-sounding username online, and maybe won't post as much so as to not draw attention to themselves.
I'm not sure why it's more common to see trans women in online communities though. Maybe in general they're more thick-skinned or are less worried about posting online, or maybe just spend more time online in general? Not sure.
massive correlation with being trans, and being super adhd/asd/french/some other mental disorder (having one disorder means you have a strong possibility of having others, they're all extremely tied into each other, including gender dysphoria) which are things that cause you to be significantly more likely to spend a majority of your time on the internet and on obscure/nerdy/highly derived forums for various complicated and straightforward reasons.
being a social outcast also may push people towards corners of the internet, and trans people are often social outcasts even if they don't have some other disability causing them to be (especially those from more rural/more conservative or religious areas)
Plenty of trans folks go harder on gender expression online because they have difficulties to do so IRL, even if being female presenting tends to result in more issues.
Of course I would because I'm not a coward. If someone was to say something so patently stupid like "I can't find a partner because I love linux," yeah you're gonna get called out over it.
I still don't envy a situation in television that is so unreal like a prince (or something similar) dancing with his dream woman (I assume). It's so surreal tgat I can't take it serious and can't envy it.
