Re: Fedora / RedHat - The problem




--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fedora / RedHat - The problem
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 3:49 PM
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:


3) My daughter's Toshiba laptop with Windows
Vista: insert the install
CD *which came with the printer*. Chug chug chug.
Printer not working,
in fact not even visible to Vista. Download a later
install CD from
hp.com. Still not working. Contact HP Support by email
... dolly back,
fade to black ... Three days later, after half a dozen
emails back and
forth, get a newer version of driver CD, which
can't be installed
directly but has to be physically burned to a CD.
Finally get the thing
sort of working, when it's the right phase of the
moon (I'm skipping the
dozen or so system reboots of course).

So, whose fault is all this? The driver belongs to HP,
the system
belongs to MS. My answer: the fault is the whole
blasted Windows
ecosystem.

That's sort-of ignoring the fact that XP has worked
with more equipment
than anything else and probably for a longer time than
anything else.
Blame vista for changing interfaces which is what breaks
things.
Something Microsoft does every decade or so (and maybe
they've learned
something from it now) and linux continues to do about
every month.

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx


take the computer back and demand XP Prof!

Many are doing this

who in their right mind would buy Vista

Even MS gave up on it...sure you can still buy it but...

The # of HP horror stories will keep me clear of anything HP but printer cartridges



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