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Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out Of College (2009)

19 points by optimalsolver 4y ago

fnordpiglet 4y ago
Linux caused me to drop out of college and launch a profitable career.
UncleEntity 4y ago
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”.
- type0 4y ago
  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.
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    Yes, one of the larger (and only) issues at the time was setting OpenOffice to Save as Microsoft formats by default.
type0 4y ago
Really good depiction on the dangers of the Free Software /s
4gotunameagain 4y ago
It is a true mystery who funded that story..
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
  Red Hat? Apple?
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Just a misguided local reporter. Spoke to him at the time. There was a followup story, too.
5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
> "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.
- Kuinox 4y ago
  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.
  - jraph 4y ago
    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.
    - Kuinox 4y ago
      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.

19 points by optimalsolver 4y ago

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

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”.

type0 4y ago
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.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  Yes, one of the larger (and only) issues at the time was setting OpenOffice to Save as Microsoft formats by default.

type0 4y ago

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

4gotunameagain 4y ago

It is a true mystery who funded that story..

2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
Red Hat? Apple?
aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Just a misguided local reporter. Spoke to him at the time. There was a followup story, too.

5350-uiop-1130 4y ago

> "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.

Kuinox 4y ago
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.
- jraph 4y ago
  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.
  - Kuinox 4y ago
    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.