[OT] Re: Is Ubuntu safe to try

[Larry Grover]

Ante Karamatić wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:03 -0400, Larry Grover wrote:
> 
> 
>>(1) Set up printing to use a CUPS printer on a linux box.  This was 
>>absolutely impossible for me to accomplish under OS X.  I finally got 
>>it working by copying the config files over to OS X from a linux 
>>(Ubuntu) system.  Setting up Ubuntu to use the CUPS printer was a 
>>breeze, by comparison.
> 
> 
> Then I don't have to tell you how I lost my mind setting up printers on
> OSX via IPP. Even Windows have better support, and OSX uses CUPS! Those
> guys at Apple are di**heads.

That's pretty harsh.  I don't know anyone at Apple, but I've talked 
with a few of them on the phone.  The guys and gals I talked to were 
really nice.


> Apple thinks only of them self. Sometimes I think they don't care about
> their users. And don't let me start with Office on OSX. That's a place
> you just don't want to go!

Agreed.


> I hope I will never have to see or work on OSX again. This OS stinks.

That's also pretty harsh.  OS X certainly has problems, but it does 
some things right, and for anyone interested in GUI design it's worth 
studying.

Regards,
Larry