I find it very hard to believe that anyone vetting a spouse in such a way cares about the spouse being a nerd in and of itself.

This just hurts my brain. I don’t get what “Linux” here is supposed to represent. Wealth, intelligence, fidelity, fanatical devotion to Free Software?

I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.