I would assume that the printer was meant just as an example of the problem (which is that new releases may break things that used to work). That said, I've be

I would assume that the printer was meant just as an example of the problem (which is that new releases may break things that used to work). That said, I've been using Ubuntu as my main OS for about 2 years and I've never had any real problems (that I didn't cause myself...) with it, so I don't quite agree with the author.