[ale] weird mouse problem

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thu September 9 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Using windows print drivers for Linux systems doesn't work or even make
> sense. There's many networkable printers but a few use non-standard ports
> or protocols. Again, that's not a fault of Linux but of the printer maker.
> Wait a month and the Linux world will work around the brokenness of the
> makers engineering.

so, how many months have you been waiting/working to get that mouse working?
for the most part, if you want to buy SOMETHING for your Linux PC, you really 
need to make SURE that someone has already gotten it to work, or you will 
either spend alot of time working on it, or waiting til the next 
kernel/software update. OK, so linux might be ready for prime time AS LONG as 
you buy it with linux installed & don't add anything to it, or know someone 
that has added that piece of hardware to an existing linux box. If you buy a 
Mac, and buy your software/hardware at a MAC store, it will work, right? but 
you can't go to Best Buy, Sams Club... and buy a piece of hardware and KNOW 
that it will work with your linux box. I ran into that with modems, trying to 
get one to work for my Uncle.. very frustrating, and he gave up. If he had 
just had DSL, it probably would have JUST WORKED. Not everything does.
So if Linux is ready for prime time, then it is the Windows driver programmers 
that need to change, good luck!


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Paul Cartwright
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