9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu - suggestion for the future

[Avi Greenbury]

Steve Lamb wrote:

> Avi Greenbury wrote:
> > Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
> >> As I said, I think the Dell Ubuntus are (or were a year ago) a half
> >> assed attempt at gaining headlines, without any real support by
> >> dell. 
> 
> >> But these may only be my experiences
> 
> > It's quite a widely-held view in my experience.
> 
>     I haven't had that experience.  Ordered my 10v with a ship date
> 30 days off.  Was shipped in about 3.  Granted, I'm still on 8.04 and
> wish Dell would release a later version for LPIA but it isn't as if
> Canonical is doing any better in that dept. and as of 10.04 are
> dropping LPIA support entirely.  *shrug*

Ah, I was talking more of the ubuntu machine specifics. Personally,
when I was looking, it took me a fair while to find the Ubuntu laptops
(an x1330 or similar?) and it appeared to cost more with Ubuntu on it
than with WinXP. I phoned dell, and was told that I was comparing
different systems; the two hardware-equivalent systems were in fact the
same price.

Dell are very good at shipping early (though it's probably annoying if
you're waiting in for it) because they give you the last possible date,
and I've no qualms with that. We're a very happy medium-business
customer of Dell generally. They just seemed to do the Ubuntu
machines in such a half-arsed way, and didn't really offer any benefits.

I suppose what I was wanting was for dell to make Ubuntu more
accessible to people who'd never used or heard of Linux, but instead
they 'just' made it nicer for people who wanted it and knew they wanted
it to not buy another Windows license.

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