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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