Woman Claims Ubuntu Kept Her From Online Classes

stonedcat writes "A Wisconsin woman has claimed that Dell computers and Ubuntu have kept her from going back to school via online classes. She says she has called Dell to request Windows instead however was talked out of it. Her current claim is that she was unaware that she couldn't install her Verizon online disk to access the Internet, nor could she use Microsoft Word to type up her papers."

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Until the point at Windows doesn't "just work"

[Viol8]

Can you say "malware", "virus", "trojan"?

Re:Expected

[Cajun Hell]

in this case, Windows "just works."

Yep, downloads and executes (or autoloads from freshly inserted disk) and installs malware without all that pesky save-as, chmod +x crap.

C'mon, the article explicitly says she wants internet access. You've got to be insane to give Windows to a "normal person" if you know they're going to be connected to the internet, precisely because of the "dangerous stuff 'just works'" problem. These three things just don't go together: 1) Windows 2) networks 3) computer novices. Change any 1 and you can have a working system, but all 3 together are lethal.

Her Verizon High-Speed Internet CD won't load, so she can't access the internet.

Ubuntu can't network out-of-the-box, and needs a Verizon CD? Whoa!

She also can't install Microsoft Word, which she says is a requirement for MATC's online classes. .. MATC also says it promises to accept any of Schubert's papers or class documents using whatever software she has installed.

Sounds like somebody doesn't have their story straight. FUD should be consistent within an article if you want people to believe it.

Re:Expected

[lanswitch]

. I don't know ... but I'm sure ...

  are you sure that you don't know, or don't you know if you are sure?

Re:This is a real problem

[Americano]

Dear smug asshole,

Considering IQs of less than 70 are generally classified as "profound" to "borderline" deficiency (mental retardation), you might want to reconsider that range.

Many people - regardless of how high their IQs are - do not cream their jeans over the possibility of having Ubuntu installed on their computer. And as your post goes to show, at least some of the people who DO mess themselves over Linux... well, they're just not that bright, though they do manage an air of self-righteous superiority.

If you insist on lumping everybody who doesn't share your profound arousal over free software into the "mentally retarded" category, can you really make the claim that you want mainstream adoption with a straight face?

Thanks for your consideration.

Re:Expected

[budgenator]

Plug in the network cable, let DHCP take care of everything, WHOA dude that's hard.