linux is wrecking my marriage

[MinaLoy]

Did anyone ever get a divorce over Linux? I am so angry I just want to weep, no energy to scream any more. my F husband keeps changing the F operating system and I have just spent 3 hours trying to get onto the internet because the F FIREWALL (SCREEEEEAM!) has interfered with the browser settings or some such crap. Please, if there are any Linux WAGS out there, also tearing out their hair/their partners hair/weeping with impotent rage............come here and cheer me up.

Hasten, hasten to add that window-box arrangement is solely for the spare cables absolutely necc. for everyday usage, in the sitting room. Because, of course, we have CHESTS OF DRAWERS full of "important" wires and cables in other rooms of the house

My lovely welsh dresser is full of bits of spare batteries, more cables, manuals, boxes of CD Roms. You get the picture!

DH attempted to sort out the cable thing by getting some of that twisty spiral plastic stuff to thread everything together. Hasn't made much difference. And the stuff seems to come in 200 foot lengths, which means I've had to find a home for all the cut off pieces, which I can't dispose of "in case we need it".

It could be worse. I have a friend who's DH renovates old motorbikes for a living. Imagine the state of HER kitchen table!

I should have added the Skype phone, the digital piano, the PSP and the camcorder to my previous list of gubbins. If I move some of the stacked copies of "Perving With Perl" and "Getting Jiggy with Java" from the table, I'm sure I'll discover even more concealed gadgetry sucking the life out of the national grid.

To all of you shouting "Mac Mac Mac", you might be interested to hear that under the bonnet of a Mac, you'll find ...

Linux.

I know, but in a much prettier guise

We're on Ubunutu. Dh has set up a system where we have a server(!), and any computer is networked onto it....it does seem to take a LONG time to adminster, but I believe him when he says it is more secure. Although last night I jumped ship and logged on using windows as UBunutu was going SO slowly.

I did laugh when I heard ds1(7) saying to his friends 'do you still use Windows? Windows is RUBBISH - you need Linux'....both he and dd who is 5 use it!

MrsFlittersnoop: I think you may actually be living with my DH by mistake! He runs a software development company and our spare room is a tangle of crap! (What kind of stuff does your DH do? - mine is music software)

I was using a PC but it's kind of overcluttered and I can't be bothered to sort it out or re-install anything. Now I have comandeered DH's mac laptop and happily crash on the couch for all my MN needs I had never used a mac for anything before now but I'm totally converted!

My DH is obsessed by all things non-microsoft too. I now have my own mac lappy. He is allowed to use it but not allowed to download ANYTHING.

Don't shoot me but I have Linux and I quite like it /ducks

LOL, this thread is hilarious. It rings so many bells for me. My husband is a software tester and my parents/sisters etc think its great they have their own 'technical support helpline'. But everytime I get used to a new system he puts on (takes a week or so), he changes it. I then have MAJOR problems with it or the blooming PC just doesn't like me. Every time that happens, the PC then breaks and he has the audacity to blame me!!?? Tee hee!!
I have no idea what Linux is, I have become a technical dinosaur since meeting my DH 13 years ago. He even had to explain how to record a programme on the video recorder over the phone, whilst he was at the pub with his mates (yes they all cheered in the background when he had finished).
Why can't he just leave it simple and easy to use? Why can't he just leave it (I have asked this question and he replied 'you can't just leave a computer').
Plus he is the most security paranoid person ever, bad combination.
I love him really

So lovely to know that I am not alone.

Yes I have to share the house with linux but I do love Linux we use Suse is this household mainly for internet. Linux is on two machines in the house, we also have a dedicated machine to windows 98 for DC games. We also use XP on the same machines as linux (choice made when switching on!) this is for dealing with some of our other hadware mp3, mobiles ect.

Linux is so easy to use as I cannot crash the computers any more. Regulalry do with windows

DH would like to use it at work but they have to use windows he is dreading the day they go to vista!!

I am feeling everyones pain

I have a cure......

Get your own work laptop. I have an IT geek at work who has made it impermiable to DHs best attempts. It is basic yet functional I have full personal use and the lovely IT man set it up EXACTLY how I wanted it None of this " oh but this would be better"

Don't ask me how to play a cd, there are so many options I give up

Oh God, this is my dad all over! He hates windows with a passion and has recently become an ubuntu convert. We have gone through his experiences with "feisty" and have moved onto "gutsy" (???) Apparently, gutsy has a tendency to freeze, but he found some update or something (I was sleeping with my eyes open at this point in the conversation)which has solved it.

Sorry, but I'll stick to my vista- even if it does have x-number of "stupid" programs running in the background and won't allow me to hack into my own computer whenever I feel the need to mess with the control panel!

well, there is one good thing about using linux - at least the russian mafia don't have your credit card details!

Can I join you too? I'm a bit of a LINUX widow. Fortunately I have my own laptop so at least I don't have to worry actually USING a computer!

Apparently Vista is terrible, and I really don't like Windows, but here I am and I'm not working so can't afford a Mac...

I showed this thread to DH. After obviously criticising the many technical mistakes he saw he then came up with his recipe for a happy marriage. Joint bank account and separate computers. I had to agree .

I live with a Linux crazed man too. we've been through Ubuntu, several versions of Fedora, think I am now using CentOS.

we have separate computers though. it's a necessity. he makes mine as easy to use as possible and isn't allowed to change anyrthing without permission

does everyone else's dp/dh have excessive amounts of cable too? and yet whenever they need a cable they always seem to have to go and buy one?

~looks down at her lovely carpet, crisscrossed with cables, sighs, and nods~

glad its not just me!

Cable . Oh boy do we have cable. All sorts of cable. Much of it now obsolete and possibly even antique. He works in the attic and there are boxes and boxes of cable. I am trying to reduce the crap we have in our house and he really needs to talk to his cable boxes an say byebye to the junk.

I have relegated a big box of cable to our attic. he is allowed a small box down here lol

it still seems to get all over the place though.

To me all of the cables look exactly the same, but my DH knows exactly what each cable is for, just by looking at it. He has 100s of cables, how can he instantly know?!!

ohhh I know. and how much do you hate it when they say "have you seen my X cable?" as if you'll know what it looks like.

D'you know, I've decided that computers have taken over from motorbikes and car engines. In yesteryear, my grandfather used to drive my grannie mad by taking his motorbike or car apart (or sometimes her car!), leaving it all over the kitchen table while something vital was happening, like a dinner party or somesuch, and then putting it all back together again for Monday morning when he needed the bike to get to the bank.

Nowadays, I have a DH who will take a computer apart in much the same way, but at least it's not so greasy