We Have Ubuntu running all of our programs and have no problems printing now. Brother has opened up all their drivers to Linux. Yesterday I plugged in a new printer and got: “new printer installed….print test page?”

Ubuntu 8.04 has fixed all that old ‘type this and type a lot of that crap’ to get stuff to work. It’s plug_and_play for most new printers now. Cannon is still refusing: because of MicroSuk strong-arm tactics, but you can download ‘Turboprint” and use any cannon printer with a Turboprint driver. HP and Dell already have drivers.

We even have XP running inside of Linux and it hasn’t gotten infected once since we wrapped Ubuntu around it. We use all of our favorite programs.

One guy here wants to know what’s wrong with Vista. Errrr…..let’s see…..where do we begin? The business world has laughed Vista right out the door. That’s what’s wrong with it. Vista is ok if all you want to do in surf, email, and goof off on MySpace, but try to use it in just about any major industry with corporate software and….Ho Ho Ho…..all bets are off.

You sure as hell don’t want your cancer doctor or physician using it. That’s suicidal. You’re nuts if you think corporations are going to spend billions on new software just because Stevie Balder and Billy say so. Oh yeah….one other thing…. Try to network it with any other stuff and its “One Way Billy Time”. Yes, the ‘ole one way road, paved by the geek daddy himself. People are sick of errors that really aren’t errors but just a smoke screen to keep them using Bill’s stuff. And paying through the nose to do it. If Bill says, ‘baa-baa this way, most sheep will follow. So; you’re sheep, a stockholder, or someone that just likes writing fiction.

Me; I’m just sick and tired of the dam thing crashing all the time. My wife hates it. My kids won’t even use it. And we have it on a brand new notebook and one new desktop. Those computers came that way. With vista and all the headaches already installed. (Whoops sorry, I forgot, my wife gave the desktop away to someone she doesn’t like.)

Microsoft should keep XP.

Or…Microsoft should change the name to Wista.

‘Wista had something else.

If you love Vista so much then you should go buy the new Windows Mojave. Har-Har-Har-Har.

Why doesn’t Microsoft just improve on Vista, instead of gambling on Windows 7? What IF it flops too? Or will it be the new Windows XP?

And for us that have and use Vista, we are going to be left behind unless we shell out another $200-$400 for another Windows release. I waited to get Vista, until I saw others that had it and how they liked it. If Microsoft decides to release Windows 7, I won’t buy it. At least for a year or 2 until I find out how good or bad it is compared to Vista.

I’d go to Linux if some of my favorite programs and printer would work with it.

What exactly are the problems that people are having with it?