This is a late reply to tcaptain post of this thread.

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Notice the Frozen Bubble icon on the task bar.


As for women using Linux... I have never met one! My wife doesn't even use computers let alone Linux.

Sorry but shifted back to Windows 2000. Its best workstation so far I have ever found.

I had a fight with Linux and it took me over 4 months to make it run at least a little bit like Win 2000 but then I gave up.

It all the time behaved like windows 95...or even worse.

I got segmentation faults when I made simple browsing with Nautilus...I got segmentation faults when I made work with gimp and it even crashed the whole Linux...scary thing.

I tested 5 different releases...

I installed all kind of upgrades...studied a lot how to install them...no effects.

I have decided to give up with Linux. Sorry to say this, but it was not my system. I want stability with image manipulation...phostoshop crashes only once a year in Win 2000...gimp crashes every 15 minutes in Redhat Linux 9.0...

Many thanks for your help. I give it a lot of value, thanks. You all people have helped me a lot.

But I have no time for Linux.

-Tommi

And you posted this here why?

SlapNUT: They are out there...I had the advantage that my SO did like using her PC...I just simply had to convert her

Sorry to disappoint you, but there are a few of us about! I only use it as my husband decided to change and completely removed windows, gutted!

I have to admit that I don't actually like linux but have had to get used to it. I'm ok until something goes wrong and then I have no control to put it right by myself before my husband gets home!

I'm sure the only ladies using linux are those who have the brains to figure out all its oddities!

Alright, I've learned alot in my few weeks checking out Linux Questions, and have tried to stay out of the politics but I think its time to stop lurking.

I have personally never met a female linux user, I know they are out there, but I do believe their numbers are much smaller than their male counterparts. On the other hand I know many, many geek girls, having worked for a few isp's showed me that.

As one previous post said, there is absolutely nothing "manly" about computing, it's a tool to be used by anyone with the interest/knowledge to go forward in learning.

I would love to see more PEOPLE use linux, though I admit its not for everyone (gender excluded here), my mother for example who got rid her vcr cause she couldn't figure out how to switch between it and the television on the remote, no matter how many times I explained it.

In the couple years (on and off) I have been using linux I have had girlfriends who gave linux a try but became fustrated with, for no other reason that its not what they are used to. Totally valid thought, if they expressed an interest in learning I would be happy to tell them whatever they wanted to know, just never really saw the interest.

Thanks to cybergal and all the other lady penquins for contributing to the movement.

for more about his issue may I offer up:

http://www.linuxchix.org/
and
http://women.kde.org/

i am here ,i did teached linux before and guess what girls were better !

My wife uses linux; in fact, she was the one who insisted on removing the Win98 partition because I was spending too much time trying to troubleshoot it.

She uses WinXP at school and finds that KDE 3.1.2 has a better interface. She was also impressed by Gnumeric, and compared it favourably to Excel 2000 (ie. solver, scenario manager, etc. but Gnumeric's charting abilities is not as good; still, Gnumeric is more powerful than Excel 97).

Being a Tetris-head, she's also seriously hooked on Frozen Bubble, and I mean super-addicted.

I should write one of those LinuxQuestions Member Success Stories about our "switch".

If my girlfriend posted here, she'd say the same thing. We lost our Windows CD key and I had a linux CD handy, hence our switch to Linux. We're too cheap to buy Windows, and too paranoid to pirate it. I like Linux better, but she has problems, and if I'm not around she has 0% chance of fixing them. Some day she'll make me setup a windows partition.

Girl here. I noticed that the forums and linux community seems to be mostly male oriented, but it doesn't really bother me that much. I don't know why more people, or girls, for that matter don't use linux. True, the reason I didn't use it for the first year was because the thought of leaving windows was scary.....but i've found good replacements for nearly all the things I can do in windows (a good p2p and taking webcam snapshots being what's left on the agenda).

But anywho...I haven't had a bsod or system freeze in the 3 weeks I've been running different linux distros. I should have switched earlier.

trinity

Definitely a girl, having a ball with linux and not giving it up anytime soon!

Now if only Bioware would start developing for us...

Girl here too.

I'm just doing a survey (after a bet with a friend of mine) - how many females are in this forum?

You should try searching:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ighlight=women

I'm going to merge this thread with the existing one, we don't necessarily need two of these.

Regards.

dunno the stats... but 'round here? A couple. Let's see..
Me, the sister of the boyfriend, and a friend of mine.

That makes 3 irl. Online? Aren't there linux forums just for us gals?

My wife uses Linux because I've forced her to (took M$ stuff off the home PCs).

She's now addicted to Frozen Bubble and can use OpenOffice like a champ.