Re: "ABC Consumer Reports" doesn't recommend Linux

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 08/09/03 

Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 20:39:15 GMT

On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 15:58:33 -0400, felmon davis <davisf@punzel.ditmar> wrote:
>
>
> In article <3F354023.50B92127@mist.com>, "GreyCloud" <cumulus@mist.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> And what distros have the MOST problems? Those two.
>>>
>>>
>> Guffaw! Try to reinstall XP when an HP printer driver won't install
>> correctly.
>> Yeah, real precision work there.
>
> this remark really struck me after an experience I had trying to get an
> epson printer driver to work in Windows 98. I ended up having to do a
> clean reinstall of Windows which I thought was a tad excessive for just
> wanting to get a printer to work.
>
> what are you referring to above in your comment? I'm simply curious about
> what problems have been encountered; I see some stuff on google but I
> haven't read enough to see any pattern. the 2nd-level tech guy at Epson
> thought I maybe had some cruft left over from the previously installed BJ
> Canon driver.
>
> of course, it's not easy to assign blame: is it HP/Epson's fault or MS's
> fault? somehow it seems to me something must be amiss in the operating
> system if it forces a reinstall.
>
> Felmon

Yeh! Windows is real user-friendly if you don't mind spending half your life
on hold and paying for the privelege while your machine is down or the
features you want don't exist.

Better to get a decent OS and take a little time to learn how it works.

Besides being a bad hack on DOS (which Gates and friends didn't even create)
Windoze works like crazy to KEEP you from learning how it works.

Hell, even Mac has gone over to UNIX kernel...

Alan 

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