you install arch once and suddenly you're a femboy :3

Didn't happen to me. I guess it's because I only installed it in a VM.
- I think doing it on a physical host is probably more of an interesting experience. I did luks with mine which caused a couple issues but I was able to figure them out.
  
  How much luks did you use? I'm thinking of trying even encrypted boot with grub but I'm not sure if it will be too difficult or complicated

I was a hairy twink before linux 🥲
- ... and now?
  
  A smarter hairy twink 🫣

So, honest question. Where does the association with becoming trans or cross dressing come from when it comes to Linux? I always see the memes and appreciate the pictures but I'm ootl on this.
Edit- lot of interesting takes on my question. Thanks for the info everyone 💜
- As a trans woman using Linux, imo it's using something beyond it's original design. Similar to how we 'hack' our bodies to go beyond our AGAB, a lot of us run Linux (on machines that come with windows) or hack consoles such as a 3ds we take machines with inferior software and make them better.
  Or a may just be reaching and it's just that security concious and nerdy communities are also largely queer ¯(ツ)__/¯
  
  It's natural as a queer person to seek to protect yourself, because the world is more dangerous for us.
  
  This sounds a lot like how one of my friends describes it. She's a riot — she jokes that she came out as trans because as a chronic tech nerd, she reached a fork in the road where it was either "libertarian tech bro" or "anarchist cat girl".
  Unrelated to that anecdote, as a queer cis woman, certainly a lot of the joy and catharsis I get from tinkering with tech feels like the same fulfillment I derive from queer community. I think there's a lot to be said for how a person's perspective influences how they approach problems. Like, as a scientist, there are definitely areas where I feel like being a queer, autistic woman affects how I approach a problem.
- There seems to be large overlap between queerness and nerdiness. Although that just replaces one question for another, and idk why it is what it is.
- I think I've read once that niche communities tend to have notably higher rates of things like trans people. It might be that it's because these niche communities are more welcoming, so those people like LGBT+ who feel unwelcome in more mainstream places find a home there and bring their friends.
  I don't remember the source and I'm half-remembering the point anyway, so make of it what you may. The context was actually speedrunning (like AGDQ).
- @LogicalDrivel @snowsynth i would say that it's related to Unix socks. You know, these long striped socks that a proud Unix user should use.

If you don't become a femboy from installing Linux, then you become a bear like I did.
- Instructions unclear, hairBoy has entered the /

Not to mention Ultrakill on that side monitor :3
- Haha I was wondering if anyone would notice!

I should introduce my friends to Linux so I can turn them all into femboys.

You have beautiful legs🥰
- Thank you!! :D
  
  how do you shave them so clean? I’ve been trying for days and I cannot figure it out.
  Bought myself a razor and some shaving cream, tried it but the razor just won’t cut anything.

I installed Debain and now I'm Trans :3
- Debian is for lesbians prick
- @kittenzrulz123 @snowsynth me too, also I come as a non binary variant.
  
  I'm genderfluid and genderflux so I come with female, demigirl, agender, non-binary, and a bunch of other things I can't even comprehend.
- Seems to happen a lot with Linux users, I’m not sure why.
  
  When I installed Linux I thought "I may be a Linux user but there's no way I'm Trans", that was a certified egg™ moment

If only... 😮‍💨
- If only what? :3
  
  If only I could become cute femboy by installing Arch. 🥺

"There you are, installing Arch Linux on your computer, and all of the sudden, you're a femboy. You didn't ask for this. You didn't choose this. Yet there it is."

Is there a big difference between linux distros? I plan to swap to Linux (still unsure of which one to use) but is Arch more fem with it's ui or interfaces? Or more so why has it been seemly mostly fem people use it? /gen
- It’s mostly the package manager, but a lot of distros share the same package manager. Like Debian and Ubuntu both use APT. Arch and Manjaro both use pacman. Most distros you install a traditional way with a graphical installer, but arch you actually install and configure the components manually from the command line. I wouldn’t recommend it for beginners because it is pretty technical, but rather try something else, and come back to arch when you think you might be able to handle it. I think Linux mint is a great starter distro personally. Also you can change the desktop however you like on any system, so choose something that functionally works for you, and then you can mod it to be what you want.
  
  @snowsynth @wafflez I would add "Linux Mint Debian edition" . I recommend avoiding Ubuntu and derived distros. Canonical is trying hard to be a Microsoft wanabe. It's sad, because Kubuntu and Ubuntu were especially beginner friendly.
  Also, have in mind that you can use different desktops. For beginners, I recommend to use KDE/Plasma desktop or Cinnamon desktop. Both have a very similar look&feel to classic Windows.
  
  Thank you so much!