It do be like that

What the fuck is this meme, honestly? What's with all the femboy stuff? There's so many ordinary people using Linux. I don't get it. And there seems to be something against Arch Linux users in particular? I use Arch and have a wife and two kids. Am I not normal? Should I become a femboy, fellas?

Maybe for you youngsters. We old farts only get to grow a beard and get fat.

There are exactly two kinds of folks in IT, soon to be or fully out anime queer folks and furries, and 60 something industry gurus who all always wear polo shirts and live in an upper middle class house despite apparently being rich as sin, also they are so hard for home security measures their backup security footage server in Montana has its own backup in a bugout bunker in New Zealand.

I was neither so I ended up being a number cruncher for a solar company instead.

And the 35 or so odd well adjusted linux folks around that find anime, fishnets, thinkpads, (and all associated memes) to be annoying AF. Esp anime / manga / uwu /waifu / and everything in that microcosm of artistic styling if I'm being honest.

I just like the software composability discussion in plain English, man, not the side of fries.

Edit: And anyone who disagrees uses stock Ubuntu unity and unironically thinks it's both beautiful and just as good as any other distro :P

To me it was Furry -> Punk -> Tech Geek -> Privacy Geek -> installing linux

I just hated that Windows had become a privacy cesspit and I wasn’t afraid of breaking things in Linux. Also, I accept that sometimes you just have to format and reinstall your sins of stupidity away.

middle aged cishetguy

PS - You Lemmy bastards did get me into Star Trek though. Maybe it has begun…

I have to disagree, I did not turn into a femboy

It really isn't though. This is a pretty weak stereotype. I have so many friends that are counter examples. Hey it's okay to make a meme if you want to have fun but if that's how you feel then your friend group is small.

no

It really don't do be like that.

But I like dem titties. How I get dem titties if I'm a femboy.

Because the closest a Linux user could ever come to touching a female or anything feminine is becoming a femboy.

Also you can be a femboy and be straight.

Sometimes I wish. In the end it's neckbeard all the way up.

For me it was Linux - > Done. :)

Wow I can't tell you about the history of Unix without talking about brave queer people.

So haha but not really.

IDK about that. Everyone I know who uses Linux is pretty vanilla. Or maybe my perspective has just shifted...

Only arch linux

I have to admit, I have questions about the impact of spending too much time deep inside machine logic territory.

My path was uh, tinkering with linux, then working for MSFT as a contractor, then one of the contractors spiking my drink with LSD at an interview leading me to more or less downward spiral for a while, then getting back on my feet, working more in the tech industry knowing how garbage MSFT but being forced to use it, then trying to explain to coworkers and bosses that actually we could fairly smoothly transition to linux and other FOSS software and actually save millions of dollars in a 5 year or less period and more going forward, while also vastly improving our internal security, then losing those jobs.

So uh. I never arrived at femboy. Being a homeless femboy in Seattle would have meant Id have been raped to death in a fentanyl fueled traphouse or homeless encampment.

I sort of dress like Josh Homme, partly for practical reasons, partly because i had to use a lot of stereotypically masculine bravado to intimidate and negotiate with people.

Most people on the street are extremely, literally murderously homophobic and transphobic. If they sense femininity in a male, thats a sign of weakness and theyll either immediately start shit or instantly be convinced that you will be easy to fuck with in the future.

Uh any way hi, hello, very normal uh, linux user person here just mm... mhm.

All that being said, leggings /do just actually feel quite nice/ and are quite practically useful to keep a bit more comfortable and a bit more warm when youre stuck outside in the winter, but youre probably gonna want to wear some kind of sturdier, scratch, cut, impact resistant pants over top of em.

Pure denim or like 90% denim with 10% somekind of other more flexible, breathable fiber works well in my experience.

Perhaps Johnny Silverhand would be a more apropo fashion analog than Josh Homme.

Although he seems to use BlackArch if you go by the menus in CyberPunk 2077, and ive always found i could do all that kind of stufd comfortably in debian.

???

wow, the comments here are not it. if you don't like the meme, just ignore it or use the block button. it isn't hard

~~Linux~~ Arch Users

FTFY

It's because we want all the dress and trappings but still want to keep our packages. Logical conclusion honestly /s

Is this homophobic? I get this is some kind of absurd joke about linux making someone gay. Or about the absurdity that anything could make you gay. But it still works on both levels and perpetuates the idea of it being a choice, or infection or symptom, and also that femboys are somehow ridiculous.

Or maybe I just don't get the joke?