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  • freddy@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldHas HP printers always been this bad?
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    1 year ago

    Once upon a time there was a company called Hewllet-Packard that made the best programmable calculators, vendors made the best demonstration: hitting the calc against the floor, picked up the pieces, assembled it and it worked again! (almost beat Texas Instrument). The same for printers, pcs, laptops, good mainframes (i learned fortran in a hp3000), almost any Hewlet-Packard electronic product was among the best. In 90s became HP, since then everything they made is a shame.















  • Right, and while in the install process, and the installer detects there is another os in your drive, “tell” the installer (there will be the option to do this) that you want both systems and choose the order of prefered booting. It is the simpler way for a new user.

    I have been using linux since 2000 year and at firts had to learn how to configure lilo to get my cdrom working. When distros changed to grub i quit learning that stuff. Used my time learning other things, like R or chempaint.

    No one should begin tinkering with grub and other sensitive parts of your system, begin with the command line and system tools first.