Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2008-09-10 at 09:01 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sep 9 19:58 Carlos E. R. wrote (shortened):
> > I think Samsung lists on the printer box that linux is supported.
>
> Ahh - this manufacturer who did set nice setuid-root bits
> on various programs with his driver install stuff
> to make it "just work".

Did they? Nasty :-/

> Again an example how bad a "Linux support" on a hardware box
> might be in the end for the poor average user who does not
> have the knowledge to find out which driver is good and
> which driver is bad.

I googled and investigated a bit and I found out that it is a propietary 
driver, so I marked it out of my shoping list.


> But - see my other mail - it seems there is nothing what
> Linux distributors can do (except to try to inform the users)
> because what a manufacturer actually does is out of our control.

Obviously.

But even finding out if a printer is suported in linux from "our" pages is 
also difficult - and more so when the manufacturer changes model names for 
a printer :-(


It is not good for linux. A novice can easily fall into a pithole when 
shopping, and a bad experience like that can turn many back into Windows.

Seasoned users will endure, but new ones...

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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