Fighting the "Legacy" Reputations of GNU/Linux, Seventeen Years Later

"I don't blame him for his assumption. I've had plenty of cases where printer manufacturers were doing special — undocumented — things with the Windows drivers. It’s also fairly unfortunate to have two printers experience very similar problems one after the other so his assumption that it might be the PC was a pretty good guess. But what bothers me is that someone who has had so much success with GNU/Linux can still believe that Windows would automatically succeed where GNU/Linux hadn't."

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