On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:26:25 +0000 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 17:08:11 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:19:55 +0000 > > Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 12:08:02 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:20:03 -0500 > > > > David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Fri 18 Mar 2016 at 13:03:52 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > On Friday 18 March 2016 12:55:26 Jarle Aase wrote: > > > > > > > Den 11. mars 2016 19:36, skrev Lisi Reisz: > > > > > > > > I have been reading this thread a bit at a time. I am > > > > > > > > bemused. Why, if you want life simple, and Free, etc., > > > > > > > > go for an AIO, which are notoriously troublesome? Why > > > > > > > > not go for a simple Brother laser printer? (If you want > > > > > > > > Brother.) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, I need scanning more frequently than I need > > > > > > > printing. The scanner works perfectly without any > > > > > > > proprietary software on my PC. I have still not printed > > > > > > > anything. > > > > > > > > > > > > So have two separate objects? That is what I do - because I > > > > > > like a simple life. > > > > > > > > > > Scanning is pretty easy nowadays, I find. Years ago it was the > > > > > other way. > > > > > > > > So what made printing so much worse? > > > > > > > > Saying that in the past, vice versa was the case, implies that > > > > not only has scanning got easier, but also that printing has got > > > > harder. > > > > > > It hasn't got worse. There are very few complaints on this list > > > about printing being problematic. Overall, the experience of most > > > Linux users is a positive one. The contraining > > > > Constraining? > > An adjective. You wrote "contraining". I was asking whether you meant "constraining", or whether "contraining" was some specialised technical vocabulary used to describe an implied inverse correlation between two historical trends. "Constraining" it is.
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