I do know of many upgrading and downgrading from Vista to get ethernet drivers working as expected. I agree, they do have "pretty good" third party driver supp

I do know of many upgrading and downgrading from Vista to get ethernet drivers working as expected. I agree, they do have "pretty good" third party driver support. But a non-intel mac from 4 years ago will not likely run a new printer, nor would an intel mac likely have a driver for printer 5 years old. A huge effort has been made for backwards compatibility, and driver support from commercial products, and that doesn't make driver support or bug-fix responsiveness inherently better. The author could have not upgraded the OS and her printer would still work fine. I don't like that solution - but the Ubuntu bashing in the article seems contrived. Maybe Ubuntu LTS can be improved. But I don't see the article expressing this concern adequately .