[linux-audio-user] Re: E17 - our choice of WM in the future?

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Wed Oct 25 17:04:11 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK - I completely understand and completely agree. However I think the
> 'printing in Linux' problem seems to go so far beyond the desktop
> environment it's scary. Printing is jsut damnably hard in Linux no
> matter how you try it. I have printers all around the house. With a
> lot of work I can get one or two of them to be available to different
> machines, but we run into formatting issues. The HP printer attached
> to this AMD64 Gentoo box gives different results with the same
> document printed from my wife's box or my son's box or even printed
> from here. 

PostScript printers work perfectly.  Don't blame Linux, blame the
proliferation of Win-Printers.  Some of that junk needs a 100MB Windows
driver!

Lee




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