Falling in love
I used Ubuntu for the first time back in 2005, I remember that perfectly thanks to their lovely version numbers.
One day a friend of mine told me that there was a crazy company giving out free Linux CD’s. And they were shipping them for free TOO! Can you believe that? Of course you can… Well so we went on and order some of those Ubu-something CD’s. 10 they sent. Not one, not 2 10 and you could even order more…it seems that CD’s got really expensive over the years because they now ship like 2.
As it happens with every relationship at first everything was great. Ubuntu took care of me and I took care of Ubuntu. My PC run smoothly and much much faster than on Winblows (“and sucks” a friend of mine would say).
At first I wasn’t a big fan of the colors but grew into them (I know, I can easily change them). I LOVED IT! Everything about it. Even the little things that I couldn’t get working right away. I mean, I even was ready to get into a fight for it (or is it he? she maybe?), one day I changed my motherboard and Ubuntu didn’t work anymore, so I sent out an e-mail to Intel demanding that they tell me how to get my mobo working with MY operating system, and to my surprise they did reply with a working solution.
First Signs of Illness
Well, this is the part when the things get bad. Our children started asking what “divorce” meant, if you know what I mean. Ubu, started doing whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, so I asked: this is what you had me ditch Wiblows for? And guess what…NO FUCKING ANSWER!
New versions came, and everything just got better, according to Canonical’s definition of better of course, things got WORSE, much WORSE.
And this is when the resemblance with a marriage is remarkable, Ubuntu got comfortable that it had me “wrapped around it’s finger” and got FAT! Can you believe that? I guess not working out and eating all that RAM has to make you fat. But, come on! 3 GB of mem with basic usage? That’s surreal, even for M$!
Denial
Now I’m here, at this point in the relationship where just I can’t let go. I don’t know why, I just can’t.
I find myself hoping and saying to everybody: maybe next version will be better. Even thou deep inside I know it WILL NOT.
Looking Forward
As I said before: maybe next version will be better. So after the 10.4 release I will tell you. But I think this time, if there’s no improvement I will let go and find another distro.
My Ubuntu Cd's
