I think it comes from the other direction. Like, the trans and femboy communities are small, but a high portion of them are in tech jobs and FOSS. So this is a stereotype about trans women and femboys all being into Arch, rather than all Arch users being trans women or femboys.

Still overused, but I can see why since the 3 most active communities I see on Lemmy are Linux users, trans people, and Trekkies.

It never even landed for me. I've NEVER met a trans person or femmy guy in tech. At least not compared to the swathes of the typical unkempt neckbeards.

Though no one wants to make neckbeard jokes, because that one has ALSO been beaten in to the ground... over and over and over and over...

Yep. Same with the "I use Arch btw" thing. It's so played out.

Look out folks, its the meme police, come to apply logic and reason to your funny internet pictures!

I think there are also cis women and trans men here, maybe? But the uniform for them is a gender neutral invisibility suit.

It's an eye roller for me. Feels like a really played out joke at this point but this is the internet where there's apparently no such thing as a dead horse

You are waaaay overthinking this.

It's a crossover meme from trans/gender-nonconforming spaces. We have ways of finding humor in what is often an frightening and deadly serious situation (being trans in this world).

One of the in-jokes we have that I saw quite a bit on reddit, is that especially trans women and femboys "are all programmers or IT people" and being technical minded, use Linux. (I'm a trans woman who uses Fedora... Hi)

I think there is also the political and economic association that comes with FOSS -- it's a sort of disruption of the norm in capitalism, which is to have proprietary secrets as a store of value. FOSS challenges the notion that the fruits of labor should be privitized. In that sense it's a radical movement, always has been, even if it has been adopted by the world at large.

Trans folk are as a rule, politically left-leaning, it seems these days we must be to exist, and so FOSS like Linux naturally appeals to the community.

Obviously there are going to be many non-technical trans people, and tech trans people alike who use proprietary OSes; and conversely most Linux users aren't trans or GNC. The meme isn't meant to be taken literally or to change anyone's beliefs or actions.

But that's the only one i don't have, so i can't say i use arch btw anymore?

Arch users = femboys

It's OK to personally "not understand" a popular meme (400 updoots at last count). Create and vote for content you really understand.

As a trans woman who exclusively uses Linux and 90% FOSS, avid wearer of thigh highs and skirts, it makes perfect sense.

Something for all of us.

a dual socket xeon server from a quarter million years ago

Surely you mean a slot-based CPU, of course. All my cool friends run Slot-A.

It's not uncommon for adolescent catgirls to go through an emo phase; being a teenager is hard and they will grow out of using Windows with time.

That said, if you think they are engaging in acts of self harm - such as setting up active directory, or running an exchange server - you should seek professional support

Yeah, you should get him the other stuff as well. Then he'll automatically download an Arch install and wipe Win10.

Still hetero, that pc has a clit

Nah, stage0 has too much bloat stage -1 ftw

Someday you will be enlightening