Unfortunate Ubuntu media coverage

[JoeHill]

Madison Kelly wrote: 

> Ian Petersen wrote:
> > This link came through an internal mailing list at work today:
> > http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184
> > 
> > Summary: Lady wants to go back to school, so buys a computer from
> > Dell.  The sales guy encourages her to choose Ubuntu over Windows.
> > She discovers Ubuntu "won't work" and drops out of school.
> > 
> > Sounds like user error to me (she claimed that Ubuntu couldn't get on
> > the net with Verizon), but it's still probably bad press for Ubuntu.
> > 
> > Ian  
> 
> Saw this on Digg... Looks like they were actually gunning for an 
> anti-Dell angle, according to the editor's blog, and missed entirely.
> 
>  From what I read, she didn't know anything about her computer, and just 
> threw her hands up in frustration and gave up without doing even the 
> most cursory research. To be honest, it sounds to me like she wasn't 
> very motivated to go to school and used this as a convenient excuse. 
> Also, the article says that she couldn't run her Verizon CD. Didn't talk 
> about her actually connecting. Again, I think she just gave up without 
> trying.
> 
> Regardless, she sounds like the kind of user that is honestly best 
> suited to Windows

Windows is suited to no one:

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9125941

and that's the news people _should_ be reading, not crap from some podunk news
outlet written by and about some halfwit.

-- 
J
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