Never met.. a girl?
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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What the fuck is a girl?
GIRL stands for GIRL In Real Life.
thats recursive as fuck
Just wait until you learn about GNU.
Or WINE
Yeah recursion is so hot
root@linux:/~ man girl
A man using Linux. Does the top part not show for you?
Have you tried looking in strangers' basements?
The previous place I was a sysadmin for was 3 girls in the Linux team (including me) and one guy who was a junior sysadmin and my wife also prefers Linux so I know more girls who use Linux than guys IRL. It's a different situation online but than again I don't bother correcting people if they think I'm a guy online.
In all the decades of existing in this rock I don't think I've ever met a girl that was on linux. I just got sad. I mean it's also pretty difficult to find guys that are on linux anyway, but I know a few at least.
It could be a difference between Europe and the US. Here in Estonia it's pretty common for women to be in IT. Like the majority of the first level support at my current job are women. Higher tier teams are pretty evenly split too except the Microsoft team, they only have one woman currently.
Could be how tech gets marketed in Europe since I never felt that it was aimed at boys here but I have seen people in the US mention how it's basically aimed solely at boys.
That's an Estonia thing, not a Europe thing. Estonia is notorious for being the land of IT. In the rest of Europe, IT is heavily male-dominated. I just finished an IT tech/sysadmin training in France: out of 15 people, 3 were women, and it was probably one of the best ratio they've ever had. It seems there are a bit more women in the programming courses recently, though, but they're still a minority.
At my current job, out of a little over 100 people in various IT teams, 10 are women.
Ah, that explains the time when I worked for a company in Denmark and whenever everyone across Europe got together in the same room it was a massive sausage fest. I always though that was weird.
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Well at least some Europe countries are having more equal gender diversity in Germany there were only a few women who studied computer science and even fewer work in it.
I haven't met any girls who use Linux in real life, but I know a few online. They are out there.
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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.
Dumb story time:
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.
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?
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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.
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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.
You've never met someone IRL who uses Linux? That's kind of surprising to me. I've had a couple coworkers who use it, and I also had some people in college in my classes who used it too.
Do ypu by chance work anything computer related?
We're in a Linux ~~subreddit~~ community so chances are good that someone into Linux would also be more into tech than the average person, and more likely to have a tech related job :P
Yes I'm a web developer and I run Linux as my only OS currently.
Subreddit?!
Sorry, community.
Reddit is a really hard habit to break after being there for almost two decades.
Let's hope that Lemmy lasts longer than Reddit did.
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I think the poster meant "they never met a woman getting excited about them being a linux users"
True squirters are a rare breed indeed. But it's not about the destination, it's about the journey and the memories we made along the way.
They say there is one on Laugh Tale.
What is this meant to be
People posing for a funny picture
Obviously she's supplying the water cooling for when you recompile chromium-edge for the 4th time this week
Wet pussy
Misleading. There's no cat pics :(
Asias first attempt at rocketry (c. 1947)
Nah
What did the one on the right have on her forehead that needed to be censored?
No idea. I tried finding a version without it, but all I saw was this.
I found this:
But it just looks like they content filled it or something. How odd.
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Wow I haven't seen this picture in about 20 years.
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