To those who haven't installed a printer after configuring, it's a good
way to make Windows users green with envy.
The Windows user needs about a half hour to run an install CD and decide
if he wants the editing or displaying software that is on the CD.
The Linux user only has to plug it in while he gets internet access,
look at the words. "your printer has been identified and the driver is
now being installed/" and then the words, "Your printer is now ready for
use."
My favorite is that the back of a printer usually has two ports together
and if you move the printer from one port to the other, the driver is
still on the hard drive, but it has to be reinstalled.
But if it doesn'tt have a Linux driver, he is sunk. It's easier to buy
another printer than to reverse engineer a driver.
Sorry Bill Gates.
On 11/18/2011 10:56 AM, Chris Knadle wrote:
On Friday, November 18, 2011 08:46:15 AM, Mark Wallace wrote:
I deleted everything that I agreed with
Now that's some serious trimmin'! ;-)
On 11/18/2011 06:18 AM, Chris Knadle wrote:
Couple of things I should touch on in this thread.
/If a first time installer has the printer plugged in, then he will know
at once if it has a Linux driver. He might want the printer more than
he wants Linux. I still have a perfectly good unemployed Lexmark in the
basement that has no Linux Driver.
Ah. Yeah okay that makes sense. For a long time now I've used network
printers rather than directly connected to the box, so the printer isn't auto-
detected at install time but rather I install it manually through the
configuration panel.
My daughter bought a really nice Lexmark wireless that has a Linux driver
available on the internet, only you have to log in in root to run it and
Ubuntu comes with root disabled. Many Ubuntu users don't even know that
they have root disabled.
It's typical for Mac OS X to disable the root account as well. And come to
think of it, I wonder how Mint handles this. Debian leaves the root account
enabled by default.
Free as in beer, root as in beer?
Or maybe it's like a milk commercial. "Got root?"
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
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