<p>Thanks for the useless rant! For the record, the same mouse *has* been working in Linux for the last 12 years. It quit working last week, after some Ubuntu updates.</p>
<p>On Sep 9, 2010 11:10 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Thu September 9 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>>> Using windows print drivers for Linux systems doesn't work or even make<br>
>> sense. There's many networkable printers but a few use non-standard ports<br>>> or protocols. Again, that's not a fault of Linux but of the printer maker.<br>>> Wait a month and the Linux world will work around the brokenness of the<br>
>> makers engineering.<br>> <br>> so, how many months have you been waiting/working to get that mouse working?<br>> for the most part, if you want to buy SOMETHING for your Linux PC, you really <br>> need to make SURE that someone has already gotten it to work, or you will <br>
> either spend alot of time working on it, or waiting til the next <br>> kernel/software update. OK, so linux might be ready for prime time AS LONG as <br>> you buy it with linux installed & don't add anything to it, or know someone <br>
> that has added that piece of hardware to an existing linux box. If you buy a <br>> Mac, and buy your software/hardware at a MAC store, it will work, right? but <br>> you can't go to Best Buy, Sams Club... and buy a piece of hardware and KNOW <br>
> that it will work with your linux box. I ran into that with modems, trying to <br>> get one to work for my Uncle.. very frustrating, and he gave up. If he had <br>> just had DSL, it probably would have JUST WORKED. Not everything does.<br>
> So if Linux is ready for prime time, then it is the Windows driver programmers <br>> that need to change, good luck!<br>> <br>> <br>> -- <br>> Paul Cartwright<br>> Registered Linux user # 367800<br>
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