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Our home just gained a shiny new HP laptop, which was immediately upgraded to Windows 10.
Much of the last tweny-four hours has been consumed by two tasks: making it print to an HP printer networked to our router, and moving email from Windows Live Mail on an XP box to the same program on the W10 machine.
If I run into a Linux problem (or even Android) I can usually visit a forum or other resource and get an answer in a few minutes. With Windows I'm Googling madly and chasing many more dead ends than useful answers.
And yes, that not surprisingly includes Microsoft's own sites.
So Soylentils, what are your go-to places for good-quality Windows 10 information?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by ledow on Saturday September 05 2015, @11:14PM
Stop buying crappy printers that don't support the generic Postscript drivers and/or plug into the Ethernet or at the very least (for home use) wireless.
It doesn't matter what OS you use, crappy propreitary protocols on your printer will eventually push you into obsolesence. And, no, CUPS won't save you. I can point to at least half a dozen printer models I've used where the Linux "support" (even when advertised) consisted of a binary driver to interpret their own protocol that plugs into CUPS (and stops working when you update CUPS or the underlying system), or actually just never works.
I've just spent an instructive afternoon trying to auto-print support emails to a particular networked printer from a major manufacturer. Works fine with Windows drivers. Under Linux, I had to enable FTP printing and FTP a postscript to it. Hint: You can't do that automatically under CUPS without scripts. None of the supposed drivers (manufacturer's, similar model names from openprinting, etc.) would work at all, or only produced garbage. Even with working ones, things like non-standard paper sizes or booklet printing or even duplex? Forget it.
Buy better printers, don't blame the OS. If it doesn't do PLAIN POSTSCRIPT and get an IP address itself, it's a piece of home-targetted shite.