On Mon, 29 Jul 2013, TOM WALKER wrote to ALAN ZISMAN:   
      
   AZ> BK> I will look further into the Linux solution. OTOH, Linux seems    
   AZ> BK> to take a lot of work, and a translator to understand the      
   AZ> BK> instructions.   
      
   AZ>I find Ubuntu quite straightforward - no 'translator' needed to    
   AZ>install it or run it - though the user interface is quite different    
   AZ>from Windows. (The Kbuntu variant is much more Windows-like).   
      
    TW> That is not my experience. I tried a live session of Kubuntu 12.01   
    TW> and the first what I thought would be a Simple task, Instaling the   
    TW> Printer, FAILED.   
      
   that is completely separate from the UI experience...   
      
    TW> I had the same experience with Puppy Linux and Mint Lunix. At    
    TW> least they pretended to install my printer, recognizing it by    
    TW> Model number, but after saying it was installed would not print.   
      
   obviously there was something else in the mix leading to the problem... i've   
   had similar problems in the past but was able to overcome them eventually...   
   in some cases, i had to resort to connecting to the printer on a share and   
   going that way... in other cases, i had to use a different type of connection   
   (parallel vs USB)... there are a myrid of reasons why things may not work and   
   one cannot expect them to be fixed unless others are also having the same   
   problems and can get some developer to fix them OR they whip our their tools   
   and fix them themselves... most FOSS developers won't work on something they   
   don't have access to... there's no real way to test their code because of   
   that... sad as it is, them's the breaks... but they are, generally speaking,   
   much better than the alternatives with all their security flaws and other   
   problems...   
      
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