Does anything in Linux work *well* 1560

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Grug wrote on 4 Mar 2005 19:00:59 -0800

Nothing, of course. Linux isn't designed to work well. Linux is merely designed to work, in much the same way as a bulletproof vest is designed to be fashionable.

Microsoft is a silken dress with garishly-colored designs that rips if a moth lands on it. But doesn't it just look great on the clotheshanger? Or on the corpse? Erm, I mean, body? A woman can't put it on fast enough before she gets shot by an automated virus. *

Works fine for me. Admittedly, I'd be slightly happier if my microphone worked, but that's apparently a dispute between me and the hardware, and I'm not alone in that area, though it's also not a priority for me personally.

OpenGL works fine for me, though I won't recommend ATI cards, at least not an ATI 9000. (They work but the BT5500 I now have -- an nVidia variant -- has much better performance, at least for me. It's an old debate.)

Remote printing works fine for me, though there were some teething problems -- mostly because Gentoo's config file and CUPS weren't too happy with each other. However, the WebWizard fixed it -- though I lost all of the config comments. Chalk it up as a bug, and not a very high priority one at that.

And SAMBA works very well there, too. My Win98 Kayak (that's a story for another day) has no problems in printing to what it thinks is a network printer, the one or two times I've tried it.

I can't say. They look fine to me.

It depends on one's definition of "better". Windows might be easier to set up, but is far less resilient to bad packets.

* if one prefers, I can drag the guys in too, though I've no idea how many wear silken shirts. In any event, it's an analogy.

-- It's still legal to go .sigless.