Need assistance

[Karl F. Larsen]

CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     My advice is to take the Laptop back to where you bought it and get 
>> all your money back. It's clear Dell has no idea how to fix the WiFi and 
>> that is criminal! If they sell it as having WiFi you can take them to court.
>>     
>
> Why recommend a "shoot first and ask questions later" strategy first?
> It's needlessly antagonistic and certainly does nothing to advance the
> cause of Linux at Dell.
>
> Never attribute to malice that which you can attribute to mere
> incompetence. I don't think it's a deliberate policy at Dell to not
> support the Ubuntu they bundle with some of their machines. It's more
> likely to be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is
> doing where the support personnel on the front lines not knowing about
> the Ubuntu support specialists that they must have. There is no way that
> Dell would have bundled Ubuntu with anything if they couldn't support it.
>   
    You were/are not a business man. I was and it was a rule that if you 
spent a lot of money for a product for your company, if it fails to work 
call the indicated number. If they can't give you support you ask for 
permission to return the item. If they plead ignorance you ask to speak 
to their boss. At some point you will get support. Or, you take them to 
court.

    As you know today the help is outsourced to somewhere in Africa, and 
the voice you hear is not speaking English :-(


Karl


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