[ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

[Rob Beard]

On 15/01/2009 16:35, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Yishay Mor<yishaym at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> No WKOW, something else stopped her. But that's no excuse, computers should
>> work for dumb people too, and everyone deserves to know what they're buying.
>> It doesn't matter that we all know that FF is better than IE, for some
>> people internet=IE, and office=M$. Dell need to explain the concept of
>> compatible slowly, probably using shorter words.
>>      
>
> I was about to say something similar.
>
> She clearly didn't know she was buying a Ubuntu machine and wanted
> Windows... when Dell support got her call they shouldn't have tried to
> evangelise, they should have sorted it so that she had what she'd
> expected.
>
> In my experience a lot of so-called "Linux evangelists" do the
> operating system more harm than good.  Especially when they try to
> persuade people that Windows is bad and Linux is good, and that if
> they stick with Windows they're somehow showing a lack of
> intelligence.
>
> There's a man in Glastonbury who does just that, and he's put more
> people off Linux than he's tuned into it.
>
> Sean
>
>   
With any luck maybe one of the members of her local LUG will offer to 
help her out and show her how to actually use Ubuntu and open her 
documents etc.  If she does get this sorted out and sticks with Ubuntu I 
hope that the TV station do a follow up story about how the LUG helped 
her out (although no doubt it wouldn't happen, she'd probably end up 
getting the laptop replaced by Dell or something).

Rob