Subj : Re: Linux Gives Me Heartburn, But Compared To Windows?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lin=F8nut?=
Date : Fri Aug 20 2004 07:50 am

Error BR-549: MS DRM 1.0 rejects the following post from Nomen Nescio:

> I'm using linux about a month. mail and news and web browsing is fine; Kooka
> and Gimp can't seem to get serious with my scanner - maybe one preview scan,
> then crap out when I try to do the final scan;

Try xsane.

> It won't recognize my eth0  card - I can't see the other windows computer on
> our lan and it can't see my linux machine;

What kind of card is it?

> Can't find a matching driver for
> my printer. The nearest match I could find prints everything 1/4 size.

Printing from GIMP?  Rescale.

> I will be happy to confine my computing to mail, news, and browsing, if that
> is what I have to do; however, I am sure that my knowledge of linux will
> creep forward until I can fix the stuff that isn't working.

Hey, it took me about a month or two to get fully comfortable with Linux, and I
had used UNIX for a semester in grad school.

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