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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