Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Thu, 29 May 2025 23:21:22 -0400, c186282 wrote:

   It IS much better now ... and I very much DO remember the bad old
   days of serial and wide Centronics and having to recompile drivers
   ...

In the '80s the company I worked for produced laboratory equipment
including automatic titrators, pH, and ion concentration meters. It's all
the same tech, different math. Anyway they had to print the results and
the customers had everything from those little thermal printers on up,
none of which were the same.  We'd send a gopher down the street to
Computerland to buy a printer, develop the drivers, and send him back to
exchange it for another. We did buy enough stuff there for real they
didn't complain.

Fast forward to the 2000's, completely different industry, same problem
with the clients having every POS printer ever made with the additional
complexity of network printers, print queues, and all that. The worst were
Lexmark. They hardly worked with Windows, almost never worked with Linux.