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Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here



On Jul 14, 2025, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:45:56 -0400
> Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > Only reason my wife's not on linux (anymore) is because the new
> > paper-cutter thing (by cricut) needs windows-only drivers and I'm not
> > allowed to take it apart and start probing around.
> 
> It probably actually runs on something somewhere on the spectrum
> between original HPGL and current PDF. There are a few DIY efforts out
> there, but the obvious intention is a walled garden.

Yep, her old one would play nice with linux.  Then she got the new one.

> > 
> > ... but also their whole website is bogus and with my luck would ALSO
> > do some user-agent checks now.  Ugh, why is everything a web-app :(
> > 
> Because it's platform-independent, as long as you don't do stupid
> one-browser-only tricks. My assorted home software will run on her
> Windows computer, my Debian sid and both Android and iOS mobile phones.

Yeah -- that one was more rhetorical than anything ;)

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