🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 03:55:01 -0700, Peter Flass
<peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2018-02-13, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-02-13, J  Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 13 Feb 2018 05:25:14 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2018-02-12, Walter Bushell <pr...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Are you kidding?  They would have to know enough to talk to the
>>>>>>> experts who do the work.  Chemistry and physics in the real
>>>>>>> world have rules, no matter how the software is written.
>>>>>>> If the software messes up just a little bit w.r.t. the
>>>>>>> chemistry of cement, the entire batch has to be dumped.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sort of like Windows: re-boot, re-format, re-install.
>>>>> And people accept it.
>>>> 
>>>> And we have another one who hasn't used Windows in 20 years.
>> 
>> I had to do the "Microsoft dance" to get my "new" printer to work all
>> of about 3 weeks ago. On my Linux box I clicked "Add Printer",
>> answered a couple of questions and it works just fine. On Windows
>> there were several reboots and it still doesn't do duplex properly.
>> 
>> 
>
>Worse. Wife has an old computer running Vista. I moved an old HP into the
>condo to run on Linux as a shared printer, which works just fine. At home
>wife's computer usually uses another printer. When I wanter to set hers up
>to use the shared printer windows wanted to install a driver for it. Cue
>hours of spinning wheels attempting to download driver. At one point I let
>it run all night and it still got nowhere. 

Vista is several generations out of date at this point.  Windows 10
certainly doesn't spend hours attempting to download drivers--if it
doesn't find a driver it tells you right off.

However why didn't you just go to the manufacturer's web site and
download the driver yourself?