Has anyone contacted Mr Dell about installing Kubuntu

[Scott]

Phil Bieber wrote:

> On 5/4/07, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>>
> [...]
>> I was a loyal Dell customer from 1995-1999 (two computers). When it
>> time to get my third in 2005, I went elsewhere.
>>
>> I'm glad to see Dell taking this step and I hope it proves a success,
>> but they have to do much more to bring me back. :-)
> 
> Hi!
> Very true indeed... I just bought my first DELL laptop couple of
> months ago, but I'm less satisfied after this short time, then I was
> with my last one, which was a cheep piece of crap... but it was way
> sturdier ... better build... Same applies to the DELL notebook we
> bought at my company ... nothing more than problems. In contrast to
> that, our Lenovos work flawlessly ...

My issue wasn't product quality, it was customer service.  It just kept
going downill. But the real kicker was when they laid off scads of their
U.S. employees several years back (I'm in the US) and replaced them with
cheaper outsoured workers overseas.

Because of that I bought my next (present) computer from a company that
is based in the US, assembled the computer in the US and all customer
service staff are in the U.S.

Nevertheless, I'm glad someone as big as Dell is taking the Linux step.

Although personally, I always like dual-booting and it's generally less
expensive to get a box with Windows on it than without (and buying
Windows off the shelf later on).

But anything to give Linux more (positive) attention is always a good
thing.

-- 
Scott
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