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In the area of "will this work with the god-damned printer" OSX is by far the most polished unix distro. More than any usability feature or GUI design element,
by rsync 14y ago
In the area of "will this work with the god-damned printer" OSX is by far the most polished unix distro.
More than any usability feature or GUI design element, the aspect of "OSX UNIX" that stands apart is the ability to interact with plain old consumer hardware...
- krakensden 14y agoActually... I have a lot more luck with Linux than OS X in actually working with printers. Even though Apple employs the CUPS maintainer.
- ZeroGravitas 14y agoI transitioned from Macs to Linux over the last decade and I can remember Mac OS X before they adopted CUPS, printing was pretty grim then, but then again so were many other things in the OS. But you could see the potential, even as people like John Gruber railed against every minor inconsistency. It's a similar story with Desktop Linux and Android.
- vidarh 14y agoFor the printers I've tried OS X and Linux on, OS X have required digging through the manufacturers website for driver downloads, while Ubuntu recognised the printers immediately.