Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

[Sergey V Kovalyov <sqk0316@SCIRES.ACF.NYU.EDU>]

I'll tell you what I'm loosing in linux. More precisely, what I think is
the main problem with linux.
It is lack of convenient and integrated support for fonts and printing.

Fonts:
 if you can see a font, does not mean you can print it; if you can print
with font, does not mean you can see it on the screen. Especially
international. Too many formats, and each application has to provide its
own fonts: X, tetex, staroffice, wordperfect, abiword, ghostscript - all
have separate fonts. TrueType fons are accessible through xfstt, but you
still can't print them and xfstt reports incorrect character set.

Printing:
 It works acceptable when you have a simple dumb printer, but when you've
got a $3000 beast there is no simple way to use its capabilities: no way
to select 1-or-2-sided printing, a paper tray, etc. With Windows, Mac and
SGI - no problem, just choose the appropriate option. The only way I see
in linux - is to create a buch of queues for each combination of options.

It would be cool to have a SGI's glp-like utility, but it seem to need a
SysV type printing.

Sergey.