> > 2. Ever set up a printer? Ever do it successfully?
>
> Yes. Use printtol. Trivial. Needed to map my printers to supported
> models.
That's not so simple.
< As Linux gains market share manufacturers will have to
> provide drivers or see people go elsewhere. This day we will no
> longer need to do guesswork.
I've not noticed any ads saying "Linux compatible" wrt printers yet, nor heard
of printers shipping with instructions and/or software for Linux.
>
> Listen, 90% of Windows easiness of use respective to hardware setup is
> not due to techncal merits but to market share: it is this market
> share who makes for manufacturers providing drivers. BTW a couple
> days ago IBM donated a bunch of printer drivers to Linux people.
Where does one find information on this?
> > 3. How about monitors? At least you learn the term "screen refresh."
> > Now that's a useful term for a cocktail party. You end up buying twice
> > the monitor you need just so that it will work ok.
>
> There have been a looooooong time since I have not needed to use the
> comand line xf86config. RedHat's Xconfigurator allows configuring
> with little fuss. In addition present day installations use ddcprobe
> so they can ask modern monitors about their capabilities.
OS/2's done this for years; I don't remember what happened when I installed
2.1 (but I did get 1025x768 out of my monitor without any difficulty), but
certainly 3.0 (released 1994) understood ddc.
In contrast, I just installed 6.2 which noticed my Sony screen then set me up
for standard VGA whereas XConfigurator could set it up for 1280x1024 and
32-bit colours.
Pinstripe may do better, but pinstripe is not GA yet.
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