[tlug] Okay... wow. Ubuntu just impressed me greatly.

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

TLUG,

I'm just floored right now, and I thought I'd just share a "wow... Linux 
is getting amazingly better all the time" type story.

As mentioned in another thread, I recently lost a hard drive, and had to 
completely reinstall Ubuntu 8.04.

Earlier today, I got a Power Point document for work that I had to 
print. I went to go print the document, forgetting that I had not yet 
installed the printer under the new Ubuntu installation yet.

Damn, I thought. I guess I need to go through all the hassle of finding 
the drivers, installing them. Last time I remember doing it, I had to go 
find RPMs from the Canon site, convert them using Alien, and so on.

This time... I don't even know what happened. I went to the print page 
in OpenOffice Impress, and when I saw that my printer wasn't listed in 
the printer options, I just closed the dialog box again, bracing myself 
for having to start a whole process of installing the printer.

But, and I don't even know how it got triggered, a window in Gnome came 
up for installing the printer. And it had already identified my make and 
model. It gave me a wizard with some installation options, which all 
seemed to be already all set for my printer model.

Bam. Printer installed. All I had to do was click "Ok" a couple of 
times. Not only that, but this time the Guttenberg drivers being used 
can actually utilize the printer's ability to print both sides of the 
page, which wasn't possible with the drivers I had previous.

Printers are usually one of the biggest headaches. Not this time though. 
Plugged and played. I just printed out a test page and my Power Point 
document, and everything is working like a charm.

I'm really impressed. That is sweet.

Just thought I'd share.

--
Dave M G