Women on Linux 😍

Yup, there are women on Linux. Sorry to crush the boys' only dream *grin*
After long consideration, I decided on March 25th, 2025, to make the big switch and ditch Windows.

A little background:
I started from scratch with an MSX Basic computer that I still own, plus a monochrome screen. When I bought the MSX, it came with a few magazines, and one of them had the code for the Pac-Man game listed.
I knew absolutely nothing about computers or coding, but I gave it a try and started to type over 5000 lines of syntax, which was pretty crazy, but it kept me busy for several hours.
When I finally finished with all the code, I tried to run it, but as the noob that I was, I didn't save the code first and went on with my effort to play that game.
I don't know what exactly happened, but my effort to run it resulted in the magical disappearance of all 5000 lines of code. I can tell you, up till today, I have never tried again LOL.
Next step was MS-DOS 1.3.
I still knew nothing about computers, but I knew someone who did, and he helped me to learn the first command-line commands, like dir, list, how to run an .exe file, and how to create and run a .bat file.
Several of the commands I learned back then are still useful in Linux :).
My favorite app on DOS was fxprep.exe, as it was the only app to low-level format (factory format) a HDD drive.
Over the years, I have learned much more and have seen many distros: First, it was just DOS and Windows, and later I discovered others like OS/2, BeOS, SUSE, Red Hat, Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, and so on, but I don't remember all of them.
Ubuntu was still in its early days, and seeing where they came from and what a great OS it has become is an insane amount of progress over the years.

Ubuntu as daily driver:
I decided to get rid of MS Windows due to the fact that they are dumping AI into everything; even a simple tool like Notepad was provided with AI.
Besides the fact that I don't see any necessity for AI anyway, I was totally not amused by the notification that my paid Office 365 was going from €69 to €99 a year.
After getting rid of my Office subscription, I started to look at Ubuntu again and downloaded a live ISO, put it on a USB drive, and started to check how well my MSI Katana would work with it.
I can say that, right out of the box, literally everything worked as it was meant to be.
Then, I decided to load the live ISO into RAM and install it on the same 125 GB USB stick that I used to start the computer with, and that worked just fine.
Plus, I was now able to install some things and give it a good spin.
Despite the fact that I was working from a USB drive, everything was still pretty quick, and after a few days, I decided to make a start.
As many people do, I went for a dual boot, which worked okay, and I used that setup for, I believe, three or four days when I decided to make the big and final switch.
I made backups of the partitions with QT FSArchiver and got rid of the MS partitions and went full Ubuntu.

It became a bit of a long read, but I hope there are more Linux women out there :)
Don't be a stranger.

Anousjka