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From: Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ******** Video: FOSS Superiority Versus Commercial Software
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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 17:46:27 -0600
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On 12/5/24 4:56 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 16:07:51 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
>>
>> Linux _sucks_ the way it is presented to people. It could very easily be
>> without these issues only if those who work on Linux itself wanted to.
>>
> 
> If your distro would supply MathMod then their wouldn't be this
> problem, but MathMod is probably considered too esoteric for most
> distros to adopt.
> 
> I am surprised that the build instructions did not work as the qmake
> should have determined everything.
> 
> Regardless, the problem is not with GNU/Linux but with the distros.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


MathMod is just an example. The issue here is installing a random 
software that runs on Linux machines.

I needed to scan and print a few pages a few months ago. I got my 
printer and attached it to my linux computer. For the rest of that day I 
could not make the scanner work. I tried every scan app that I could put 
my hands on, and they won't see the scanner (on a Canon printer). I 
looked everywhere for a linux driver for it. There was none. 
Stackoverflow related sites were all full of crap for it. Old as well as 
new. Useless. The one offered by Canon I didn't get from Canon site (it 
didn't have it anymore) but from one that had saved what was offered 
earlier by Canon. And it did not work either. The scanner/printer is a 
few years old.

So next day, at last, I stumbled on a scanning software that when I 
installed it, it could see the scanner. Just out of the blue, this one, 
out of many others, could do it. Didn't ask for driver or anything. But 
by then I had dusted off my Winblows computer and scanned and printed 
what I wanted in a jiffy; literally in about 10 minutes I was done.

This is not a joke. It speaks of linux' demise as a forever OS that's 
limited to a few, not all. And it is certainly so by design.