calling Apple care and after about 40 minutes of wasted effort, it was escalated to someone who told me that printer is no longer supported.
WOW!
You actually get some real information out of Apple support!
Must been talking to some chief engineer.
All I got from Apple support was so much aggression I started fantasizing about bombing their building.
I wish to have a pc which will run FreeBSD exclusively.
That's what I'm doing for over five years by now.
Not only PC. All my machines: exclusively FreeBSD, only.
Works fine.
And I'm yet not retired either.
(This is not ment for you,
zsolt, but general for possible external readers: )
It may not be possible for every situation.
E.g. you get a company's laptop you have to work with, or special software, only available on Windows/Apple.
But in most cases collaboration is to work on files.
The software you edit the files with is secondary.
You need to learn to do the work otherwise, mostly reconsider your workflow.
When you started computering with Windows doing things wrong is your reference.
So you need to learn how to do things right.
Often it's simply just to use and learn another tool.
But within unix-world you have to learn most things once.
You don't have to relearn everything again, when a new version also changed the (G)UI.
Check out some packages. Browse the ports tree - 'dig the gold mine.'
E.g. tipp: If you doing graphics, don't use Gimp, only, try
ImageMagick (if you never heard of it before).
It's for graphics what
ffmpeg is for media -
very powerful.
Anyway in almost all cases there is a way how it's doable.
And once you got the hang on it:
The result is a lot more flexible
And more efficient.
Hence the CLI.
I think most doctors and dentists, to name two, use probably expensive software that will only run Windows
This is true because the user is a doctor and dentist and not a professional computer person.
Almost all physicians I know use Apple.
It's simply that they have to chose from software recommended by their association, which needed to be licensed to standardizations also by their association, the health insurance companys, and other laws.
As long as the system works reliably, and does its job, of course they don't care about what's below.
Those systems for medical offices are complete package solutions delivered by companys specialized on that.
software, hardware, installation, support, schooling, maintenance - all inclusive.
Only the computer interested physician may ask some special question.
But after all it's just a service deal they contract, so they got a reliable system they can work with, and no need to bother about anything, except call a technician if anything needs to be done.
The computers are the least cost of the whole package.
As in every business you get a margin on everything you just buy and sell again.
So the service supplier would be stupid to sell cheaper systems than Apple.
And he also don't have to need much expertise about the OS.
If you don't give a shit about what Apple all sucks out of you and your system - your customer's machines,
but just bravely do everything what they tell you, you get a rock solid reliable working system you simply need to buy some new hardware every 5..9 years for.
Whereas the period to buy new hardware with Windows is shorter. Plus it's not that stable (at least Windows did a lot in the past to earn that reputation). Plus you have to pay periodic license fees.
As long as no developer offers his software for FreeBSD, or Linux,
and there is a real need for them to leave Windows, and Apple, e.g. systems become unreliable, too much maintaining, or costs rises (most costs are for the user software anyway),
they don't change. Of course not. Why should they?
