My Computer Girlfriends: Romance and Adventure Story

Next I will tell you how my relationship has been with some of the GNU / Linux distributions that I have used. This is an article I wrote a long time ago on my old blog and I have modified it a bit. If they thought I was going to talk about my "real" girlfriendsWell, turn on the TV and look for gossip programs because this is not the case 😛

My Computer Girlfriends: Romance and Adventure Story

Like many of the computer lovers of my generation, my first romances in this world were about MS-DOS. It was a short romance, but I learned to give my first kisses (as who says). Typing those commands to create, copy folders, among other things, for me was the best.

Then on an excursion I met who would be my first computer girlfriend, something more serious, her name was Windows 95 and I was in awe of her, and we had a long relationship of 3 years. It was my first formal girlfriend.

The relationship was in decline when I met a new girl on a bus in 98, but after two years I also broke up with her for being "mentally vulnerable" and in 2000, I started a new relationship that turned out to be worse.

Luckily in those years I was a good looking man, and what at that moment, I thought would be the love of my life, came into my life: Windows XP. But beauty is not everything, our relationship suffered from its ups and downs due to the number of mistakes she made and the number of intruders she let into my house.

Despite that, I came to dominate her quite well, but deep down I always knew that she was a lost cause, she dominated me. I was more or less stable with her until I got tired. I confess that I learned a lot from her, it was an unforgettable experience, but by then I never left home, I was too comfortable and I didn't know that there was a place to flirt called the Internet full of varieties.

I decided to get out of my comfort zone and find a new love. My relationship with XP was in decline, and by chance at a bar counter I met a girl (who turned out to be pretty, but it was a lot of blah blah blah, but little action) called Ubuntu. When I realized that this was not my thing, I convinced her to introduce me to a friend, cousin or sister ... the very slut introduced me to her mother. He told me to wait at the bar and went looking for her.

As I waited to meet the parent of Ubuntu, I began to see women of all kinds and types. I was in awe of Mac OSIt was truly beautiful, classy, ​​very different from Windows. The crazy idea of ​​making her fall in love crossed my mind but I was able to realize with a short conversation that the girl liked expensive gifts and it was very expensive.

I thought Ubuntu had been kidding me, as it took a long time to appear, so I went out to tour the place. So it was there, hidden in a corner, as if saddened, when I met a very simple woman, not at all conceited, pretty, without many pretensions, but that yes, she exuded security and was ideal for a stable relationship.

I approached her cautiously and discovered that it was not like Windows either "something that made me deeply happy" was something new, unknown and I decided to start a conversation with her. As the conversation intensified, I was discovering that it took me a bit of work to understand it, and it is logical, it was too adapted to Windows, but I had nothing to lose and I took a risk, I gave it my all.

We were talking all night. He told me about his family, big, very big, in fact he had many cousins. I asked her her name and I knew she was the ideal woman, the one I was looking for. Debian, he said, and there I was with my mouth open, I was stunned.

She talked non-stop about her loved ones, sisters and cousins, SUSE, Centos, Mandriva, Mandrake, Knoppix, Fedora, in short an immense list ... and that they were all born beautiful and strong thanks to the genes of her father, a man named Kernel Linux. And then in an unexpected twist he told me about his daughter, Ubuntu. Then I understood everything. In fact, now that I knew it I realized that they were actually very similar, only that Ubuntu was full of makeup.

Thus began our relationship, on a stormy night in a bar. She was my girlfriend for many years, and over time she had changed, she had become more beautiful so I proposed to her and she accepted. It was a nice wedding where my Debian dressed in KDE for the ceremony, GNOME for the dance, and for the wedding night, she wore brand underwear XFCE.

It was so happy! But I'm a free spirit, and after a long, long time, the relationship became too boring. I already have a few years and I decided to look for a younger, more current girl, and that is why today I maintain my relationship with ArchLinux. But as in any relationship, nothing is perfect. He has insisted on putting things in my house that I do not like, something new that he bought in the store called Systemshit, I mean, Systemd. We'll see how long it lasts.