On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Faldegast <[email protected]> wrote: > Check for a FOSS Linux driver BEFORE you buy a printer or scanner. If there > are a high quality FOSS driver now, there will be decades from now...
Indeed - I always check the OS support of the hardware before buying. But instead of searching a lot, for example when buying a laptop, I tell my vendor, that the thingy must be fully Linux compatible otherwise they get it thrown back. Worked so far. So the hardware support is IMHO not the problem. For the unsupported hardware it is the non-thinking of it when buying the stuff. Much more of a problem is it, when I anyway face annoying bugs, e.g. docking station support in Ubuntu 10.04 (it took my hours to sort out the issue and find a workaround). Currently in 12.04 that seems to be solved (Juhu!), but on the other hand I have problems starting applications written in Mono for example - Unity launcher simply doesn't get it. Because you were talking of printers: There was somebody in my neighbourhood to whom I gave Ubuntu and using SimpleScan there was an annoying bug that caused scans (Printer+Scanner) to be scanned with the wrong paper format all the time (although manually configured correctly). - These are the real annoyances in my opinion, because they take me 80 % of installation and configuration time and that reminds me too much to Windows. Best regards, Martin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
