Title: Online Student’s Struggles With Linux Make Her an Online Celebrity
Date: January 16, 2009
News Program: The Wired Campus
The article was about a young girl who purchases a Dell computer to take an online course so she could work full time and go to school during the semester. She ordered the computer online and claims she accidentally chose Linux to be her operating system. Once she received the computer she tried to use the system for several months until she finally decided she couldn’t use it. She then tried to get Dell to give her the Windows system for free because she claims she couldn’t download the necessary drivers for the class. She ended up dropping the class and registered for it in a later semester.
I think if this was such a problem she should have fixed it right away when she got the computer instead of a few months down the road. Dell claims that if you want the Linux operating system then you have to go out of your way to select it and it warns you what you are doing. She must have completely ignored that red flag message. Linux users also said she could have used the computer for everything she claimed she needed it for. This means that she just didn’t know what she was doing. There was a 30 day return period and she completely ignored that too. I have no sympathy for her because it sounds to me that she handled the situation completely the wrong way. Ms. Schubert doesn’t sound like a very smart woman to me and she also doesn’t sound very smart because Linux isn’t that complicated.
-Brad Marshall-
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