I can't resist.... I'm probably old enough to be your mother, but I have the same problem with dating and had to end a romantic liason with an otherwise pleasant gentleman who couldn't seem to understand why I didn't "just install Windows so Yahoo messenger will work and we can cyber".
It felt kind of shallow at the time, but if he couldn't respect that then there were just too many other irreconcilable differences for it to end well. It was actually a careless mistake that my Trisquel username is my (obviously feminine) real first name, but maybe it's time to just go with it and ditch the gender/generation neutral pseudonyms for good. I've been a free software user for ten years now even though I look exactly like Shuttleworth's sexist stereotype of the 50ish grandmother who "doesn't understand free software or why us guys work so hard to make it easy enough that even she can use it". My 21 year old son doesn't mind asking me for computer advice anyway. My 25 year old daughter thinks she's such hot shit for installing Ubuntu that she doesn't ask or I'd help her upgrade from McLinux to Trisquel too. :P On Sun, 20 Oct 2013 18:46:36 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] wrote: > Hi i'm a new member..ity's really true that girls use linux free softwere??? -- Heather <[email protected]>
