I hate Dell (with a Vengeance!)

So... I'm really beginning to hate computers (and I think that they may hate me as well) and here's why:

see... a week or 2 ago, the windows OS on my laptop broke (don't ask me how, I don't know... but it did) and so I figured that this would be a perfect opportunity to install ubuntu (it wasn't) as I've been meaning to for some time.

So... I install ubuntu (at 4am no less) and spend most of the weekend configuring it, and then... somehow it dies as well (...yay)

not one to give up... I install it again, and it worked for a bit, though I couldn't get it to connect to my school's wireless network, no matter what I did, or who I brought it too nothing and no one helped
and then tragedy struck: the screen went completely white and gray ....every time I turned it on (fuckin' dell (1))

so, I bring it to our school's tech support (we're required to get these computers as a part of our school's laptop program ....fucking villanova)
they replace the system board and the lcd, and give it back to me "good as new"
now I still had linux when I got it back and I wanted to dual boot windows
(cause I need it for a couple of programs) so as an alternative to having to install windows and all it's damn drivers (damn windows) and updates from scratch I had them reimage my drive so I could then dual boot linux from windows
simple, no?

No.

today (well... yesterday actually) I got my comp back I was trying to install linux and every time I tried to boot from the cd the comp shut off, again, and again..... and again, until it just kept shutting of every time I just turned it on (fuckin' Dell (2))

it turned out that the "refurbished" (read "defective") system boards dell sends our school to use as replacements, don't allow you to boot from anywhere but the hard drive or it shuts off (fuckin' dell (3))
So the guys at tech support (who are pretty cool) decided to just give me a new comp (since they couldn't fix my old one)

...and so that's what I've been doing most of today, trying to figure out stuff and reconfigure my comp.

The moral of this story you ask? Dell Sucks

...btw if any of you out there is good with linux (or even computers in general) and you have any suggestions you'd like to give on ...pretty much anything, post in the comments please
I'm still trying to get the hang of linux so any and all advice is greatly appreciated

did I mention I hate dell? cause I really do... (fuckin' Dell (4))