On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 00:43 +0000, Chris Glover wrote:
I've goto an HP C6180 all in one thing and it was really easy to set up. In fact it took me 15mins to get it working in Linux (scanner as well) and almost an hour in XP :-)
Was that hour spent waiting for the HP driver installation to finish installing 400MB of crudware onto your machine ?
I want the printer driver, not 3 programs that duplicate functionality (badly) that is already built into the operating system and some vague attempt at software that makes greeting cards.
If ever there was an argument for it being desirable for manufacturers _not_ to support linux this would be it. If this is the sort of rubbish they get us to install on Windows I'd rather let the OSS crowd figure it out. :-)