Re: Vista vs Linux

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On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:26:56 +0200, Alias wrote:

measekite wrote:
I wonder if now this ng can have a discussion on the merits of Vista vs
Linux.

In between Frank's drivel, perhaps.


If so then I can see that printing and scanning are the items in Vista
favor. Everything else, except for some standardization of where
applications are stored (what folders) appears to be in favor of Linux.
There also appears to be less things in Linux that one finds very annoying.

I have an HP AllinONE and the printer took three clicks to install and
the scanner was ready to scan with XSane once it found the scanner.
Avoid Canon, Brother and Lexmark and you're good to go with Ubuntu.

Alias


I have an Epson 4180 scanner; one of the few models where there was no
driver and XSane did not recognize it. So I finally found one in Epson
Japan and installed it. No problems at all. Xsane works better and has
more features than Epson software under Windows.

The drivers for the Canon printers suck.

And that brings me to this. I am looking at an Epson Pro3800 and find
there are not driver for it that will print good photos using Gimp.
.

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