Comment 1874 for bug 1

Hi :)
I usually find one of the main blockers to Ubuntu migrations is trying to get wireless connections to work.  They should work because yes, both sides are running Gnu&Linux but somehow it's only the Windows laptops that can connect, not the Ubuntu ones (or the Ubuntu side of the dual-boot).

We are now in a position to demand that wireless connections do work with Gnu&Linux.  No more of this Cd with only Windows drivers.  We need wireless devices that give us the equivalents for Mac and for Gnu&Linux.

People and the mainstream media (even the tech press) are years away from realising that desktops are a vital part of the eco-system.  At the moment they are still wowed by the tiny machines being faster and doing more than their crumbling ancient Windows-'driven' desktops.  Eventually they might realise they still need desktops but maybe ones that don't rely on Windows.  Lets capitalise on the brief moment we have to push mobile devices and their capabilities.

Most office workers work in only 2 or 3 locations;  home, work and maybe "in-transit between the 2".  It's fairly rare to have multiple work locations.  About half the people at my main work-place bring in their Androids, iPad/iPhones with no thought or expectation of being able to use them productively.  To be fair even desktop users tend to email documents to each other in order to get them onto the machine that can print.  They don't seem to understand that they can save to the network and them reach from any machine and they don't seem to realise that all machine can print.

However, why not print directly from their Android's?  Maybe only to 1 or 2 of the printers at work or the 1 at home (depending on where they are).

We have only a couple of years to push this type of work-flow before everyone starts to return to their desktops but right now we have an opportunity to really push for peripherals that are compatible.

Btw i have huge troubles trying to get a proper office photocopier to work.  We have a large Ricoh with a multi-sheet feeder on top, supposedly able to staple as well as collate.  It's so tall that it's made to stand on the floor and comes up to just over waist high on me although it's more like chest high to a lot of the ladies.  We also have an A3 colour printer that we normally use to print A4 in colour.  I can't get the Oki C810 nor the Ricoh to work at all under Gnu&Linux.  The tiny hewlett packard printers worked "straight off the bat" with 0 effort.

Regards from

Tom :)

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> From: Martin Wildam <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 11:15
>Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share
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>Hi,
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>On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Tom <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or hand-held devices in your town!
>> Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere.
>> Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk.
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>Of course mobile devices are all around also here in Austria, but:
>Mobile devices are an addon - they help on the go and they are good for consuming IT content, but they are bad when it comes to "production" like Programming, Document Writing, Foto Editing, Desktop Publishing, Design, CAD, ...
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>This is why I do give nothing on those news headliner telling that the PC era is over.  Of course: A lot of people do use a computer (approx guess) 80 %
>internet surving or watching video, 10 % email reading and 10 % email writing. - Those are perfectly service with a large enough tablet.  Anyway I do not know any tablet or smartphone user not having also a laptop or PC at home.
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>BTW: I consider PC and laptop as both being relevant for this bug #1.
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>> However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed.  Quite the contrary!
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>Yes, indeed!
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>> Now is the time to really start working at it!  Now that mobile devices and hand-helds have become so common-place it
>> should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux
>> friendly.  Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i will be able to print from my Android.
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>This is an uncommon use case. What I see always: Documents are sent by email to somebody who has the desired printer on his laptop or PC already configured in the list of available printers. At least 2 times a week I am at customers and I would never go to connect to a wild number of printers and after changing to the next phone model have to do it again anyway. I already reduce the list of configured W-LAN entries in my phone. Even if it would be just 2 clicks or touches away - I first would have to ask some person at customer side to what printer I should send the document xy, would maybe need to configure page size, make sure enough paper is in the trays and so on. Apart from the fact that on many network printers you first need to login anyway and have to be within the customers real network and not only in the guest W-LAN.
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>>  So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?"
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>This of course is an issue sometimes, but I experience less problems to get a Linux compatible printer than a Linux compatible laptop/PC.
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>>  or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work network.
>> Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?"
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>I never heard of drivers I need on my client to support particular routers. Routers are running their own operating system inside and most of them alreasy run a flavour of Linux ASFAIK. I do consider routers - as servers - already to be taken over by Linux.
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>Best regards, Martin.
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