So a little background, I have been running Ubuntu since Edgy as my primary OS. So we dont print a lot of stuff so we dont keep a printer upstairs (its in the basement disconnected) and both the wife and I have laptops. So she needed to print something this weekend and brings the printer up tries to connect it to her XP Pro laptop, cant seem to find the drivers, downloads the ungodly large drivers from HP (54 mb for the "basic" driver) tries to install and fails, i try the same thing and fails. She gets mad and goes and does something else for a while, comes back after a few restarts and the driver still fails to install.
She then asks me if she can print it from my computer, I say sure. I get up plug the printer in, go to printers to add the printer and it auto detects the printer, installs the drivers and immediately alerts me to the fact that its low on ink, so I try to print a test page and it barely makes it!
Needless to say she wasnt to happy, but the question after that was "why doesn't my computer just work...." hahhah! I am going to burn a live cd and have her try out Ubuntu, she has been resistant until now to do it, but since I showed her that Office works under wine (yes I know openoffice is good, I use it every day, but you know) she might be more inclined to switch.
She then asks me if she can print it from my computer, I say sure. I get up plug the printer in, go to printers to add the printer and it auto detects the printer, installs the drivers and immediately alerts me to the fact that its low on ink, so I try to print a test page and it barely makes it!
Needless to say she wasnt to happy, but the question after that was "why doesn't my computer just work...." hahhah! I am going to burn a live cd and have her try out Ubuntu, she has been resistant until now to do it, but since I showed her that Office works under wine (yes I know openoffice is good, I use it every day, but you know) she might be more inclined to switch.