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Turns Out Ubuntu Dell Costs $225 More
An anonymous reader writes "One week ago this community discussed the apparent price advantage of Ubuntu Dell over Vista. The article linked to a Dell IdeaStorm page with the status: 'Implemented.' Today the status has changed on that page to 'Reneged: Ubuntu Dell is $225 More Than Windows Dell.' The full price of a Ubuntu Inspiron 1420N is indeed $50 cheaper than the identical hardware configuration with Vista — except that a $275 free upgrade to 2GB memory and a 160-GB hard drive is available for Windows only."
What incentive does Dell have to only provide the free upgrade to Windows users? This could be an honest mistake, but if I were a conspiracy theorist (which I'm not) I'd assume Microsoft have something to do with this.
Worked on, got any more?
Meaning, assuming these are legit issues for this user, you fixed them on his system? Or you just offered your experiences on your own machines and consider that enough to call it a day and say these issues are taken care of?
No sig for you!!
Evaded the diagnosis? You evaded the diagnosis by refusing to answer questions, to help out in any way on your end by providing information. ... It's not just that you didn't like that one specific suggestion, you refused any suggestion.
Are we looking at the same thread, liar? I posted four pieces of information about diagnoses in the very first post. For almost every suggestion, I tried it or explained why I couldn't do it.
-They wanted me to get my Windows CD. I didn't know where it was, and Ubuntu is quite clearly billed as not requiring proprietary software. That's a fundamental part of the philosophy given on the front page. That they adhere to that philosophy is a blatant lie, of course, but how was I supposed to know that?
-They wanted me to post my menu.1st. I couldn't get to the OS that had it.
-They suggested I try some commands. I did, and posted those results. NO ONE FOLLOWED UP to that.
-They wanted me to burn a CD. Ubuntu disabled my burner. (That one was a little hard to get through to them.)
-They wanted to know what version of Windows I had. Sorry, not going to give you a target for ridicule. It doesn't even get to the point where you load an OS, so obviously it can't be relevant. No one to this day has suggested even a remote possibility how that could result in GRUB error 25.
Would "buy a new computer" be a reasonable response? No. Unless the problem was that your hardware was broken
Any my problem was fixable without the CD they were telling me to download and burn, which would have taken me miles out of my way.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.