45 minutes later, I came back double clicked, on the installer, next, next, next, agree, next, you know the routine. To my amazement the installer was asking for more stuff from the Internet, so I left it and went back to my room.

20 minutes later, my little brother came and told me that the laptop was complaining and making noises. So I rush to check whats the deal. Apparently the automatic detection installer of Windows was minimzed and still running, caused a conflict, and aborted. So I just got rid of the multiple auto installers, one for the printer one for the scanner and one for god knows what, and started the installer again.

Another 20 minutes I went to check up on the installation and found another error dialog, of course with the customary “no explanation”. This time I had two options: Terminate or Debug. I opted for the former since I knew squat about debugging. This brought me a cute little error and a 1 minute countdown to restart! Arrrgh!

After the restart, I ran the installer for the third time, and thought while I am at it, let’s just browse the net for a while, so I click on the IE icon. The same error and the same countdown!

At this point my patience really grew thin, I rushed downstairs and got my eee PC, turned it on, hooked up the printer. I was expecting to have to manually add it from Ubuntu’s control panel. How wrong was I! it automatically recognized the damn printer, and started printing in less than a minute.

So let me get this straight, almost two hours to get a damn printer to work on Windows XP, which didn’t even install I might add! This coming from the king of “user friendliness“, Microsoft Windows XP! While I experienced a 1 minute plug and play process for the king of complexity, Linux? Boy today’s standards are screwed up!

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