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Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College (2009)

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So…

The only issue is she can’t get online because the CD Verizon sent her doesn’t work (which is probably a good thing) and the Dell support person said the same thing as the school which was “no problem”.

Looks like they managed to help her, but at that time 08-09 she would probably face more problems at school because she used OpenOffice. A friend of mine couldn't submit her classwork at University because teachers deemed OO generated doc files to be incompatible.

Yes, one of the larger (and only) issues at the time was setting OpenOffice to Save as Microsoft formats by default.

> "I tried to get on the Internet on it, and that did not work"

yeah, driver support ~2009 sucked.

> "Extremely frustrated, I'm sick of it.

can relate.

Installed ubuntu a few weeks ago, IPv4 is broken out of the box, need to summon the DHCP client manually on boot so it get an IPv4.

That's not normal, Internet access works well out of the box on Ubuntu for almost everybody and has been for years. It could not be one of the most popular Linux distributions otherwise. There is something wrong or weird with your setup. Maybe remove your connection from the settings and set it up again.

I've installed Ubuntu on many computers without invoking any weird tricks, I can assure you IPv4 is not broken out of the box. That would be a huge, critical priority mess up.

Now, maybe you have some driver issue or something.

I'm not saying that normal, but I never had a smooth experience with linux distributions. There was always some kind of problem like that. Always.

Linux caused me to drop out of college and launch a profitable career.

It is a true mystery who funded that story..

Red Hat? Apple?

Just a misguided local reporter. Spoke to him at the time.

There was a followup story, too.

Really good depiction on the dangers of the Free Software /s

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