On 27 Mar 2014, at 23:42, Wendy G.A. van Dijk <nl...@wendy.org> wrote:
> Scanners.... I never had luck with scanner support on Windows XP, always > stupid errors. This behaviour of idiots working on drivers at the scanner > manufacturers is continued for support in Ubuntu. It just sucks always. > Almost none of the extended options promised, ever work for me. Not back > than in XP, and not now in Ubuntu. I just have to scan my shit to a USB > stick, and copy the files to my computer later. Universal law of > conservation of suckdom. (slightly OT…) Scanners and printers are the source of most of my historical frustrations with computers. I’ve finally achieved hardware peripheral nirvana by buying a Scansnap S220m (sheet-fed) and a cheap lexmark laser and plugging them into my mac, whereupon scanning becomes “launch scansnap software, hit button on front of scanner” and printing just works. Before this, I more or less gave up because I’ve never had much luck. The part where software has to touch the real world is where it all goes wrong. James
