All of these replies made me feel a little bit better, but yours especially resonated with me. Thanks.
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A_A@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
With gratis Linux we pay with our time. You did very good to go through all this hell in a mere 7 hours. Programmer creating those monstrosities don’t understand our mundane concerns.
mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4 weeks ago
A_A@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Great post ! i felt my past Linux experiences where quite normal while reading it. So, thanks to you.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Honestly, this is a pretty good example of why this isn’t an inherent Linux problem. It’s a problem of using any OS that isn’t popular enough to be supported by manufacturers. More people using Linux would cause problems like this to stop happening.
I realize that’s a distinction without a difference to a lot of people, and that’s totally okay. I’m not saying that’s wrong, but it matters to me that the benefits of Linux are specific to the OS, while most of the problems are not.
A_A@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
More people using Linux would cause problems like this to stop happening.
i say the designers + programmers made it so and you say users made it so. … it seems we disagree here.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
No. That’s not what I said. I said the manufacturers not testing their equipment on Linux made it so, and more users would change that. Actually, looking at it again that isn’t even true. This example has nothing to do with the operating system at all. It’s caused by connecting with a computer on a different subnet, which would have happened even if the OS were Windows.
superkret@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
The problem as described has nothing to do with the computer’s OS.
It was a default printer setting that blocked access from all computers in the same network.