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I know that this may bring forth some contraversial comments but, am genuinely interested in what people think about this. We don't seem to have very many female members - off hand, I can't think of more than Clare, Gemma and myself (I apologise if I have missed anyone). However, certainly we are in a significant minority. I don't know if this is just our LUG or if this reflects the proportion of female Linux users overall. Members (male ones) have often commented that they find it difficult to get their partners to migrate over to Linux. Is there something about Linux that makes it "female unfriendly ? If there is, I don't know what it is ? I have seen some comments on other forums that this is because you need to be intelligent to use Linux obviously treat these sort of comments with the contempt that they deserve. We would all like to see more and more people use Linux and drop Windows (I assume this is a majority view, anyway ?). But, if women are saying "no to Linux", this will keep Windows as the dominant OS for some time to come. I think Linux is far superior to anything other OS I have tried and feel a bit frustrated that more people are not giving it a try. What are your thoughts ? -- regards viv -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html