Yes, that is a photograph of me, sometime in 2004. Until very recently it was unavailable in any digital form. I am now though the owner of this printer/scanner. Which means that such memories are possible, even on the internet.

As I unpacked it though, because I run Ubuntu I found myself in an irrational “will this work, will it be a nightmare” frame of mind. Despite knowing that linux supports more devices than any other os.

It Just Worked.

Easier than the installation would be on pc/mac according to the documentation. No installation at all in fact. Just connect & go. Which is how things should work all the time.

The desire for this to be the case is just one of the reasons I contine to use Ubuntu. A mentality that sees the worth examining itself by these sorts of criteria:

There are still many people who think that the scariness of an operating system installation is a good place to ask people unnecessary questions about things they’ve never heard of. There are still many people who seriously think that “Gnome” and “KDE” and “XFCE” are acceptable terms to use when communicating with non-technical people.
Ubuntu and “desktop environments”

I should not have to perform sysadmin tasks in order to connect something to my computer. And now I don’t. Because people have put serious thought into designing a system that makes things easy for the user.

Love regards etc

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