I often think of neurodiversity as operating systems. Most people, the neurotypicals, are running on Windows. But us neurospicy people, we run on Linux. There are a lot of distros, different, but still kinda similar in some ways, you’re usually not taught how to operate them, have to find out a lot by yourself though it isn’t necessarily hard to learn if you’really given the opportunity and your environment just lets you be without too much expectations to run Windows software. And mostly, the normies don’t get it and can’t be bothered to learn about it. (Also there’s Mac but that’s those weird people who say they are different but really only do it for the clout. Or they’re just artists.)

Then maybe you should do some research. Every female gamer I’ve talked to told about harassment. And, mind you, screaming “b*tch”, demanding her going back to the kitchen, threats of rape are not the only forms of harassment.

Here are some examples for videos that depict a different experience than yours:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NUFgOQmzXtY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46ms4LAhdrE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66eYfyYFQIs

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdBHywFVEP8

I also recommend looking into the comments every now and then. They’re usually either confirming the experience, relativize or being oughtright harassing, too.

Unfortunately, that is not the case. In my humble experience, the most disgusting (and/because inexcusable) shit comes from grown up guys who were 10-17 years old 15-20 years ago (and they never changed). Online gaming is a hostile environment for girls and women, and it’s by far not only due to 10-17-year-olds.

Software Installation is all but centralized on Linux. Sure, there is your store or package manager, but both Apple and Windows do have that, too. But you can always add any source you want to that store (flatpak is great), find an AppImage, some doubious install script, find your own packages and manually install them (like .deb), use Steam or sometimes, like with Blender, download, decompress and run it.