Comments on: Ubuntu Fun http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/23/ubuntu-fun/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Russell http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2008/03/23/ubuntu-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-945 Rob Russell Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:30:33 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2008/03/23/ubuntu-fun/#comment-945 I just talked to someone the other day who had to buy a new printer to work with her new Mac so we're not alone in being ignored on printer drivers. Heck, I know Windows XP x64 still has miserable printer support too. I hope that with more flavours of more operating systems out there printer manufacturers go back to making hardware that meet some kind of known interface instead of insisting on their own magic apps to make everything work. I keep thinking of trying Ubuntu but I've never seen a compelling reason. My OpenSuse 10.3 does what I need. I don't see that much difference between one distro and another. If the release cycles ever line up such that my Suse is old enough and Ubuntu is new enough maybe I'll switch. It'd definitely be a build with KDE though, Gnome's not for me until they overhaul those common file dialogs. I just talked to someone the other day who had to buy a new printer to work with her new Mac so we’re not alone in being ignored on printer drivers. Heck, I know Windows XP x64 still has miserable printer support too. I hope that with more flavours of more operating systems out there printer manufacturers go back to making hardware that meet some kind of known interface instead of insisting on their own magic apps to make everything work.

I keep thinking of trying Ubuntu but I’ve never seen a compelling reason. My OpenSuse 10.3 does what I need. I don’t see that much difference between one distro and another. If the release cycles ever line up such that my Suse is old enough and Ubuntu is new enough maybe I’ll switch. It’d definitely be a build with KDE though, Gnome’s not for me until they overhaul those common file dialogs.

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