[ale] tipping point for desktop linux (actually does something easy with scanners)

[Ted W.]

On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 12:46 -0500, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> In the early days of personal computers (think
> Trash-80/Commodore/Atari)
> 
> manufacturers of dot matrix printers were less than prompt at
> delivering printer drivers. I had to write several to get the Atari to
> play nicely with various dot-matrix printers. I'd hate to think what
> is involved in writing one today, and then porting it to the various
> operating systems.
> 
> Sean
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:09:05 pm Boris Borisov wrote:
> 
> > I wish all hardware vendors were that prompt with their drivers. The
> 
> > world will be betters place. Or maybe that is how they stimulate
> 
> > driver hackers :)
> 
> > 
> 
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Had a similar experience with my fiance's printer. She has a Lexmark
Multifunction printer. I needed to print and scan some documents for our
house closing. To my amazement, I plugged in the USB for the printer and
not only did the printer work out of the box but the scanner works
better under Fedora than it does under her Mac running OSX. Printers in
Linux, when they work, they work very well... when they don't work, they
just won't work, period.