Wow, I “kind of” blown away by this story because it’s a first time I heard a local news outfit anywhere said Ubuntu 
But I was a little sorry for the girl too, because I feel Dell doped her. But I have to say, ignorance and haste are part of the reason too. You don’t plunge to Linux just right away if you don’t know someone personally that do Linux, face-to-face interaction is the best. She should not have acted upon on peer recommendation that just fast, she should have insisted for a Ubuntu demo machine or find a friend that could have lended her an Ubuntu machine so she could play around with it, to get a feel of it. She should have though that Windows and Linux are very different, so the usual things you do on Windows may not work on Linux (point on the Verizon DSL CD and the Microsoft Word as a requirement for the online course, although, her school should have not “advertised” that MS Word is only requirement).
Moral Lesson: Don’t get into Linux when you don’t know what you are getting into…
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