Printing & Copying

There is a kid in my programming class who has been having a nightmare getting Java installed on his computer at residence. We're in our 9th week of school and he still cannot get Java to install. My professor and I both suggested he try out Linux, as it's easier to do... damn near caboodle. He didn't non-standard like to lure our guidance as he's unmoving having problems. Tomorrow I'm going to ration out him the Gutsy CD Jim gave me at Sunday blackness's Gutsy let out party, along with a printout of our wiki page of Ubuntu resources. I upgraded my two pcs to Gutsy recently. My laptop has been direction gutsy since tribe 3, but my fastness, which is the kind computer, needs to be stable or else my mom has a unreliably (as by a long chalk she should), so it lately got the upgrade a few nights ago. After the upgrade (which went more or less smoothly, we lost internet about halfway thoroughly so I had some dpkg stuff to play with), my printers were still there, smashing! the whole shebang worked. I decided to prove gutsy's brand-new printing dialog so i deleted my Canon MP160 printer (which was a bear to set up in feisty/edgy), and reinstall it. I at best plugged it in and it worked!! The object!! Now my laptop did not possess anything on it. fitting as before, setting up the sharing had been a bit of a wretchedness in the past, so, I set the printer to shared from my PC, enabled my laptop to look for shared printer, and voila! I had a canon mp160 I could put out to!! talented! Why again do we not have market share? Can windows do this? As as I can recall, printers in windows are a PITA. Drivers to download, random producer utilities, the register goes on and on. The scanner part of my printer retaliate works! How devoted is that! My mom is very happy, as am I. in olden days again, Ubuntu wins, but the credit goes to the Gnome/Ubuntu set who got this new printing combination hooked up, I can't wait to talk what kinds of awesome things give away up in daring.