What is your price on a low-cost LINIX printer?

[Christopher Chan]

Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2009 5:42:11 pm Faizan Kazi wrote:
>> @Robert: yes, it does seem like they're never truly finished :s and
>> probably never will be finished.
>> @Res: you're right, i've heard that HP is the most compatible, and the rest
>> are often incompatible. But we can always use Windows through Virtual Box
>> and pass the printer in to Virtual Box as a USB module :) I know its
>> cheating, in context with our current discussion, but it is a workaround to
>> make any printer work in Ubuntu :) (i think...)
> 
> Um, lets see.  ...didn't that make the cost of the printer just jump a couple 
> hundred dollars or so?  It would for me as I have never ever owned a computer 
> that had windoze on it, and I'm not even sure what I'd need.  I've heard 
> nothing but bad about vista, XP might be OK but don't think it is even for 
> sale anymore.  Or would it be proper just to pirate a copy of windoze so one 
> could operate a printer?  Inquiring minds want to know.  ;)  I bought this 
> Dell 1525n only because it was factory installed with Ubuntu.  Before that it 
> was hand built machines ever since my last Amiga quit and the OS on them was 
> Amiga XL OS and Mandrake.  The Amiga 3000 UX had Unix System V rel 4.  The 
> 4000 had 3,5 Amiga and Mac 7. on an Emplant board.  
> 

Oh just leave the chap alone in his dream world.