I'd been running Red Hat for a couple of years and got everything running smoothly and the family had accepted it as a stable replacement to Windows 95. These were the days when there was usually just one computer in a household.
Then one evening while on late shift I received a frantic call from my wife. Printing had stopped working and both kids had assignments due in the next day. She was tearing her hair out and was unable to follow my instructions to clear the print queue from Terminal.
On my next day
Interestingly, I've never had problems with printing or scanning on Mandrake / Mandriva / Mageia Linux (or other distributions that I've tried, including Ubuntu and SuSE), until Apple had bought Cups. The first few fresh installations I did after that were not straightforward with printing. After a few years it got good again.
My post was not a RH or Linux knock, I still use it for work. I was talking about over 20 years ago when you had to buy the install CD and get hints from magazines. Peripherals were a bit more difficult to get working then. I agree things are a lot smoother today.
No worries, I didn't read your post as trying to knock Linux. For me it's just interesting that you solved a peripheral problem with Mac, whereas in my experience you either had a compatible device (pre purchase investigations were crucial much more than today) and it would work, or it just wouldn't. Linux was incredibly stable that way, okay or not at all. Until, like I wrote, Apple got their hands on Cups...
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