[LINK] Moved to Linux

[Adam Todd]

At 01:01 PM 11/09/2006, Eleanor Lister wrote:
>Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>>- Linspire instead of Ubuntu: for the drivers. The primary user of this 
>>machine is my wife; she mostly uses it for work, and so my own "comfort 
>>zone" is that I don't have to try and diagnose "something isn't working" 
>>over the phone.
>
>i just don't get this.   i bought a new canon scanner recently, and the 
>sales-critter tried to tell me that "Canon don't support Linux" which made 
>me laugh ... "Dear boy" I murmured "it's whether Linux supports Canon that 
>matters - Canon's attitude is irrelevant".

Oh I MUST remember that one!  That's so Quotable!

>i got the scanner home, unpacked it, threw the Windoze (yuck, spew) CD in 
>the round filing cabinet, and plugged it in.
>
>it worked.   perfectly.   just like that.

Tempt me to try the HP OfficeJet under Linux now!