Ubuntu Causes Girl To Drop Out of College

[gxsaurav]

Now u don't have to be an Engineer to know the full form of E.M.F!

Eat my fries ...seriously even I don't know the full meaning.

 

[Hitboxx]

@GauravCJ, we don't require that kinda language on the forum and you don't deserve a warning.

So in your own words, Get the f.uck outta here!

 

[esumitkumar]

^^Well done Hitboxxx

Regd Ubuntu issue..Americans are pretty dumb and rich..Thats why so many BPOs had mushroomed in India..so ...it was obvious..

Plus gals dont know much abt technology...Leave Ubuntu alone

 

[desiibond]

Anyways, even though I am seriously offended by statement that the omniscient above me just passed, but this girl did some serious favour to herself by dropping out of the Technical College. If she doesn't even know how to buy a computer for herself, then she is much better doing something else than studying for engineering or something similar. She should feel that it is a blessing in disguise for her.

There are people desiging software in Microsoft that doens't know what exactly RAM is, what exactly Pentium is....

Not having computer knowledge doesn't mean that the person should not be in tech universities.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

I actually can't believe how she ended up buying the Ubuntu PC. Dell has made sufficiently difficult for that Laptop to be traced and even then they ask whether you are sure with Ubuntu or want Windows.
Personally as a Linux user, I feel the "blame" should go to the representative who said "ubuntu is great, etc." Linux is great, particularly Ubuntu yes, but he/she should have warned the girl about pitfalls as well (such as no native MS Office 07, etc.).
Also I think the girl is not clever at all. Couldn't she just purchase a retail copy of Vista Home Basic + MS Office Home and Office?

I think it's more of her mistake really.

 

[red_devil]

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Dude, his name isn't soumyaa, its Soumya..notice the omission of a 2nd "a". he is a guy for gods sake...

He is a Macboy.

dude..check my post... i've said SOUMYA itself.. and not SOUMYAA [like you said]

and btw, from the user name, i thought it was a gal... never had i heard a name called SOUMYA and it turn out to be a guy ... but yeah now i guess its some kinda shortened up name for something else..

but whatever be the case, my apologies to SOUMYA ... sorry mate

Carry the rant on f.uckhead, go ahead, entertain me. I'm sure I'll get a big kick of out of listening to a 2-paisa prostitute like you.

lol...you sure got a BIG KICK ... possibly bigger than what you expected didn't you

 

[Liverpool_fan]

I wonder how much brains are required before making a right decision. And I wonder why I'm not surprised at the computer-related fiasco considering it was a girl.

Please don't be a sexist. I know a few guys who are worse...

EDIT:
Hey I see a Mr. Troll (GCJ) in this thread. Gosh! Trolls are entertaining.

 

[Ecstasy]

I think the girl and the dell company must have had a miscommunication or something, thought it was weird.

This thread proved more of a flame war than a discussion. =p

 

[Faun]

I actually can't believe how she ended up buying the Ubuntu PC. Dell has made sufficiently difficult for that Laptop to be traced and even then they ask whether you are sure with Ubuntu or want Windows.

She must be a digger !

 

[Pat]

@GauravCJ, we don't require that kinda language on the forum and you don't deserve a warning.

So in your own words, Get the f.uck outta here!

You forgot to delete his post though

 

[Faun]

^^As they say don't remove the evidence, it will be ridiculous to read Hitboxx's reply then.

 

[Liverpool_fan]

Well for starters the headline in the source^ reads

27 News Troubleshooter: Woman blames Dell for missing online classes

and not Ubuntu causes a girl to drop out of college.

The OP has chosen to stop at the following line



And I will continue quoting the article highlighting what's required, as I find that misleading for those who will not go to the source mentioned at the end of the article.



When students see her using her Ubuntu laptop for her course, hopefully, it will bring about some awareness that there is life without Microsoft and their products.

Thanks.

Speaking aside.
As a sincere request to everyone, please dont call anyone as dumb or fool. Not everyone is born genius. As geeks ourshelves, we feel, oh its so easy and this and that and laugh mericlessly on someone; but we forget that people need help at the intial stage. But the truth is that for someone who doesn't know already, THIS IS DIFFICULT.
This story is amusing indeed yes but not mock inducing.
So guys before mocking someone, please bear in mind, there would be a field or two where you and I would be as bad or even worse. (Me in Cricket )
Reading the story in question, the girl in question has been helped and THAT is good.
What is not good is this:

Sadly, thousands of Ubuntu fans didn’t care about this woman’s struggle to enroll in online courses. They didn’t care whether this young woman went to college or not. They cared about the reputation of Ubuntu.

Source: *addins.wkowtv.com/blogs/troubleshooter/?p=24

 

[hellknight]

Too bad for GauravCJ.. and i was thinking that i might get banned .. but seriously.. this isn't the fault of Ubuntu as the title of the thread says.. MVP ji.. try to think about a better title next time you post.. and Ubuntu is wrongly being blamed for all this stuff..

 

[Indyan]

The girl is an idiot<period>
Seriously..all it takes is a google search to find out replacement for MS Office for Ubuntu..infact its built in. And then how hard is it to install windows either. Whats even more surprising is that she didn't even have any knowledgeable friends at hand to help her.

 

[thewisecrab]

What a n00b
I dont think I need to explain myself

 

[Liverpool_fan]

This should really be in Fight Club

EDIT:
This story has got so many hits. :shocked
*digg.com/linux_unix/Update_Girl_drops_out_of_college_because_of_Linux?FC=PRCP0

and the update as well
*digg.com/linux_unix/Update_Girl_drops_out_of_college_because_of_Linux?FC=PRCP0

EDIT:
The update actually does show something wrong...seriously wrong with Ubuntu, none of it technical.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Stop being a sexiest..

I second that.

I have a sister 2 years younger to me, and she is a pure non-geek. But she still figured out how to turn off my archlinux (while I was downloading something. GRRR... ) by just noticing that there is a menu button which she has seen me click several times.

At the same time, I also have a friend who claims to be a Windows Geek (and he really DOES know several things, and can find his way around registry and can write batch files easily) who thinks its hard to navigate when the "taskbar" (actually, its the xfce4-panel) is on the top.

She is a paying customer so she deserves to get support from Ubuntu on phone just like she can get on phone via Microsoft. We in India pirate, but in USA piracy is low so since they are paying, they demand support.[/quote[

She paid for the hardware, not the software. There is an option in dell.com to buy support for ubuntu, but I guess she didn't buy that thinking that she is too smart to need technical support.

there is no "Get Started" Wizard in Ubuntu either showing all the features etc

Actually, there IS something like that. You just need to be curious enough to look around in Ubuntu. Its an icon right in the upper gnome bar. It was one of the first things I noticed (apart from the obviously UNIQUE experience of having two "taskbars") when I first booted from ubuntu live CD.

And yeah, when you compare my status back then, a barely 15 year old who hadn't the slightest clue what linux was or even what the BIOS was, and I was completely ignorant of most of the things in this world. I doubt you can tell that I was smarter then than this adult girl from "the most developed nation in the world".

 

[Plasma_Snake]

Eat my fries ...seriously even I don't know the full meaning.

E.M.F stands for Electromotive Force, an electrical potential energy which cause the current to flow in a circuit. It is taught in class 10 and in detail in +2 Non-Med.
Like MetalHead's case I too have a younger sister 3 year younger to me and she too is a complete n00b in computers. We enrolled her this year in a B.Tech program in Computer Science and it is my duty now to not to let her be a n00b but she likes it that way only.
One day before joining college, as she was becoming an Orkut addict, I tried to block the Orkut on my system using that Hosts file modification method and when I came home the lil' bugger was scrappin' away with all her might.
When I asked how'd u do it, she said,"Simple! Googled for Proxies and used the first one that came as a result." I felt like a complete J@ck@$$ at that moment but happy too in a way that my little sister does know a thing or two about computers and some that too which I don't.

 

[JojoTheDragon]

She was a complete= n00b +idiot - lot of experience of for sure. If she didn't knew this much then she dosen't deserve it.

 

[utsav]

and btw, from the user name, i thought it was a gal... never had i heard a name called SOUMYA and it turn out to be a guy ... but yeah now i guess its some kinda shortened up name for something else..

but whatever be the case, my apologies to SOUMYA ... sorry mate

i hav two friends, Soumya and Divya , they r twins and the most important thing, they r guys
there was another soumya when i was in school in our class but that was a girl