WSJ - Article on Linux netbooks

[Bill Davidsen]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 28 May 2009 19:41:12 Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> True, except for one major difference: when your printer doesn't work
>> under Windows, it's usually because you didn't install the driver yet
>> (or installed the wrong one). Unless the printer is at least a few years
>> old, there are always drivers for it.
> 
> Nope.  From time to time there have been windows releases where the old 
> drivers would not work, and no new ones were written.  I had a SCSI Black 
> Widow scanner that had to be thrown for just that reason.
> 
Still running a 386 with Win98SE for one scanner, as long as it works I'm not 
going to drop most of $1k to buy another. I really can't see throwing out an 
expensive scanner to make a political (religious?) point of "only Linux on my 
systems."

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