[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

[Henry Wertz]

"I had two potential Windows-to-Linux converts. Typical home users with
web, email, writing a few documents/letters + home office. The basic
additional requirements for home office environment in these cases is
multipage scanning and fax. Didn't either try the fax as already the
multipage scanning was not possible in a bug-free way."
     I hadn't tried faxing either until a week or two ago.  It turns out it works great.  Right about when you're like "Oh man is this going to be ghetto or what?"   It turns out you can just "Print to fax", the fax app pops up and has you dial the number (or pick of an address list, or I think send to multiple), you click "next" and it faxes.  I'm sure incoming faxes were easy too.

     As for the scanner -- that's a shame.  However, I've seen scanners
goes just as poorly by going from XP to 7 (go from super-fancy to a
plain 1-page-at-a-time scanner), and totally die from 98 to 2000, 2000
to XP, XP to Vista (no drivers).   It's a fantasy that you can just take
random hardware and expect it to 100% work with Windows either.  To be
clear, I think their decisions to go with Windows in this case was
sensible (since the hardware works with it) but this is really not a
strong argument against Linux adoption *in general*, as I've found
Ubuntu has supported FAAAAAR more hardware for me than Windows ever has.

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Microsoft has a majority market share
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