Hello Dell and friends!

First of all, thank you for offering linux drivers, it is definitely appreciated, and I wouldn't have gotten this device if they weren't offered.

However, the linux installer for the drivers makes some very strange changes to important system files, which made my computer unusable, which as far as I can tell must be a mistake, so I sincerely hope that one of your representatives can send this message on to whoever is in charge of it.

Specifically, after downloading the driver here: http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/19/product/dell-b1165nfw , I ran the autorun program, and I of course had to give it administrative privileges, and clicked through successfully. It changed the owner of the /usr folder to 8070:9999 (where it should be root:root), and this being a very important folder, broke many other programs (such as virtualbox). There were several other folders that had this permission changed: /usr/lib, and a few lib files in that folder whose names I don't remember (something like libtty).  It also created an empty /Desktop folder at the root! So something very strange is going on with the program.

Please do have them take a look at this, as depending on the skill level of the user, this can wreak havoc on their system. In my trying to fix it, I made a typing error and ended up having to do a complete reinstall of my system! I was running Ubuntu 12.04, and then I installed 14.04, reran the program since I no longer had anything to lose, and found the same behavior. I know I'm not the only one, here's at least one other person with the same problem:

http://wyldeplayground.net/usr-folder-permissions-being-changed-to-8070-9999-breaking-virtualbox/

Hope to hear from someone soon!

Dan