Re: no excuse from prints manufactures
Exactly. And then for inkjets they install ink and printer monitoring software, again NOT a standard on the Windows platform and needing admin rights. They do it because they can, so they do....and break things. But then most people yell at Microsoft.
Linux will not stand for any of those games, the kernel is server-based and bypassing the system drivers with their own, plus installing system-level background apps, would have heads rolling. Fooling around with CUPS, to the same level as these clowns do to Windows, would be outright WAR.
But Windows is a client OS and the manufacturers know the can get away with miserable designs under the guise of "enhancing user experience".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
