No offence, but I think you're nuts. Setting up a printer is as easy as
"add printer" in the KDE printer settings and only a little less easy in
Gnome. Pdf is much easier to handle in linux than in windows since
everything is already ps anyway, and the conversion is a snap. No
special printer drivers to install. Doc is a breeze with openoffice.
Much more convenient to fire up openoffice than to close out your gimp
and your GNUCash and mozilla with all the pages you've been saving to
look at later in the the week to reboot just so you can fix a spelling
error in word.
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 10:24, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> I know it is possible, but it is so much less of a hassle. She
> cheerfully uses a laptop with FreeBSD, and will even surf the web when
> my pc is runnin FBSD, but her classes (UNO) all use pdf, doc, ppt, etc.
> Plus she needs to print shit all the time. I know all of this can be
> set up within *BSD/*nix, but it is a lot less of a hassle switching
> between system. I use FBSD for most things (web, programming, etc), but
> when I need to hammer out a paper and print stuff I boot up winbloze.
> One of these days, I am going to set up the printer, but I just don't
> have anytime; but to tell you the truth, I'd rather spend the time
> figuring out how to emulate win2k on bochs under freebsd :)
>
> Brett
>
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:33:42 -0500, "Mark A. Hershberger"
> <mah@everybody.org> said:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 08:39 -0600, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> > >Alex, as noble and ideal as that may sound, it is also unrealistic. I
> > >have to dual boot, and I all I have is a girlfriend, 2 dogs and a cat!
> >
> > Setting up Linux for your GF isn't unrealistic unless there is some
> > must-have app that doesn't run under Linux.
> >
> > I've got Linux set up on three different systems in my house. My wife
> > and kids (ages 4,6,8) use it all the time.
> >
> > The only dual-boot machine is my laptop. And that is only for the VPN
> > client that I have to use sometimes.
> >
> > (BTW, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/)
> >
> > Mark.
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