[nflug] Dell Ubuntu order

[Stephen Burke]

Dude, you bought a DELL?

Ouch! Good luck with THAT one.

Wiping out preinstalled M$ crap is always a joy. Wiping out dell 
strangeness doubly so. I can't even begin to speculate on what kind of 
fascist strangeness dell is going to try to hide on it's ubuntu boxes. I 
have little doubt that they went to great lengths to chew up 3 of your 4 
primary partitions before it gets to you, as they do with their M$ crap.

Your safest bet, imho, would be to trash all dell's dirty tricks and 
install BLAG on it as soon as it gets there.

Not that it isn't an interesting experiment for postings here...

;-),
S.

p.s. One of my brothers is a lawyer for dell and is continually trying 
to convince me that they are the "most standards compliant" company in 
the biz. hehe.

Franklin Kumro Jr wrote:
> I'm going to share my experience with ordering a dell Ubuntu machine,
> if you could care less then don't continue :-P
> 
> The process started when I customized the E520N and added it to my
> shopping cart, next step was to call to receive my 10% off discount.
> This is where the fun begins, Benjamin was on the other line to assist
> me. After explaining the discount situation Benjamin needed to know
> what computer I was going to get. I explained the E520N (N is the
> Ubuntu line), however he had no idea what that machine was. He then
> asked what OS I wanted and I said Ubuntu. This must have blew a fuse
> because he became silent and put me on hold. About 4 minutes later
> Benjamin came back on the phone and asked me 6 more times what OS I
> wanted. I spelled it out for him and then ended up telling him to go
> to dell.com/linux and check it out.
> 
> About 10 more minutes passed at this point and then he asked me for
> the specs of the machine I wanted. Not only did he match them (besides
> video card - oh does the nvidia 6150 come on intel cpu boards? I
> didn't think it did) but I got a pretty good price too.
> 
> The kicker was he was very excited to throw in Norton (I think?) Anti
> virus for me with free support! I broke out laughing and tried to
> explain exactly why that would do me no good but Benjamin didn't
> understand.
> 
> After the order was completed Benjamin and myself parted ways and I
> went to the dell.com website where I could not find the nvidia 6150
> video chipset for an intel cpu. This was what I was to receive so one
> of us is wrong (My bet is I am).
> 
> Its been > 12 hours and my credit card was billed but I was not sent
> any order information...who wants to bet this beast comes with vista?
>