You don't have a girl do ya? ...easy talkin'

I think you underestimate the time a girl asks. I don't put my girl and pc('s) on the same level, though she can get quite jealous at times.
I just think, there have to be times you can linux all you want (so when she gives something in) and times where you give her your non-stop full attention.
Personally, I think this goes all almost without notice... in the beginning, it may be unbalanced, but in the end you'll find the border without having to argue about it.

Threaten to type "rm -rf /" into a console. That ought to get his attention.

But does your kernel love you? Does The GIMP sooth you when your day has gone awry? Can you compile happiness?

Your computer is an unthinking, unknowing slave and nothing more. The newest CVS tree of your favorite open-source application will be there tomorrow. That new kernel release you want to try will be forgotten when the next version comes out. But if a girl has been lucky enough to discover you and wish to spend time with you, that's more than a transient relationship or the mere analysis of a complex digital system.

Ok, just wanted to make sure this wasnt my GF posting a message..

I'd say to put on a skimpy penguin outfit and talk to him dirty about ports and kernels and modules. Heeheeheehee

On a serious note, just tell him how much it bothers you that he isnt spending enough time with you. Guys can get wrapped up in their hobbies pretty easily. I know, I have two hobbies (computers and cars) that sometimes take up too much of my day. I make an effort to cut myself short, or at least to tell my GF to pull me away if I get too involved.

If he doesnt listen, doesnt care, or doesnt want to spend time with you, then you have a bigger problem that needs to be addressed, or left behind.

Good luck!

Sometimes I wish I had a girl with those characteristics...

having a gf is like having a human pet, you should feed it, take it for walks, pet its ears.. a time commitment that might bring order and companionship. when i had a dog i was more productive, had to wake up in the morning, stop chasing dependancies every few hours to go for a walk etc

I tried to, but it won't compile , just kept giving errors :

I tried getting moneylibz but, it needs job.so to install, but i can't find it anywhere !
I guess i'll just wait for the official release, or maybe an RPM .

Just buy him a faster computer!

Anyway, since installing Linux my relationship and comunication with my wife actually improved!

Better communication:
I was able to network all my computers using LTSP. Now, whenever my wife "wants me" she can sit at any of the available 5 computers, login with her account, and contact me via GnomeMeeting, GAIM, Kmail, or just post a message to my personal webpage on our intranet server.

No more fights:
My wife loves reading about me (and my day), on my blogger page, this prevents her from
asking me "What are you thinking about honey?" and with my answer of "I don't know", that usually ends up in a fight. Now, this doesn't happen anymore.

Improved relationship:
We actually enjoy spending time with each other, it doesn't matter if it's saving the hostages in CounterStrike or capturing the flag in Unreal Tournament, we are doing it together!

Thanks Linux!

P.S. I will be setting up a VPN so that my girlfriend can login to our network.

Wow.

So many serious replies. I never expected to read anything like this.

I'm going to remember this when I get a signficant other...

I found job.so! But it seems there is some kind of hard-to-figure out program called gnushopping that keeps removing moneylibz config files?!

[EDIT]Solution... keep job.so running non-stop. This way, it makes a new copy of moneylibz' config every now and then.

Hmm
Strangely happiness seems to crash every now and then, returning this to the command-line:

Warning: system call to attention...
hapiness: Fatal Error: attention not running! (Sorry, hapiness isn't perfect)
[/EDIT]

any ideas?

Nicely said.

And elluva don't make assumptions about my life ; )

Guys,
I would really like to thank you all for your response. I found a lot of useful and funny - witty- postings
Thanks to you I came to some useful conclusion. It seems that I am not the only "victim" of the "Linux Addiction Syndrome"...and definately not the last. .
I have really tried to understand what Linux is an idea as well as an OS. I even used to change his background (he always uses the boring green deskop) just to show him that I am trying to understandf him and I want him to understand me as well. I made his room look like the Antartic Continent with all the lying, flying and hanging around penguins. Now I feel more optimist I think all he needs is time, I hope it will turned to be like this...
I will try to talk to him (he is a great listener when is sitting in front of his slackware...is he listening to me? I dono!)
Keep your fingers crossed for me please...

==Bea==
Damn, that penguin thing is a great idea

Time (and a good talk) will indeed do it... don't take it all to dramatic, it will work out.

He is, it is just hard to notice

Keep us in touch how it worked out!

==pezplaya==

oow... didn't want to offend you, it just sounded a little bit to typical.

Ya tell us what happens between you and your boyfriend.


no offence taken.

sry if i sounded a little harsh.

I know exactly what its like to have a linux-head boyfriend, as a matter of fact I am using his linuxquestion.org ID to post this comment to you now. You have to make your boyfriend understand that the time that you spend together needs to take a priority to the time that he spends learning linux. My boyfriend often says the same kinds of things, "this will take 3 minutes" but 30 minutes later, he gives it up because the time he promised me is most important. If you friend can't get it through his head that you're more important and more fun than his computer then maybe it's time you moved on.