In my office there are probably 600 linux desktops, plus with the global environment and collaborative effort we have to have all printers in the company published in our CUPS setups at each site. There are several sites of this size plus a few smaller ones, so needless to say there are a LOT of printers. I went to print a document today and jesus having to scroll through no less than 500 printers to find the one by me is brutal. Not to mention my company has no standard naming convention (not a linux issue) so 5 minutes later I give up and open remote desktop to print from windows. And before you say it yes I have my environment variables set, of course there's what 10 different ones these days that different applications use.
This is one place I must say Windows has it right. It pains me to say it with the abomination of a solution they usually deliver, but printing was so easy, there were just a few printers in the dialog box (ones I'd used previously). I just don't understand why with the great strides made on the Linux desktop over the past couple of years (thanks Ubuntu) that they can't fix printing.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Linux Gripes Introduction
I've started this blog as a place to express and vent my frustrations with Linux. If you're looking for something constructive you should move along now. I am an avid Linux user that works in a global environment with HPC clusters and desktops located at sites around the globe. This leads to a number of interesting challenges along with a lot of *headdesk* frustrations, and this will be a place mainly for the latter.
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