[Poser]

I still find myself back at a terminal screen, manually editing Samba and Cups printer files. Linux desktop is not fully functional yet. I like Linux, but the average user is not ready to do this sort of work just to share a printer.

[driftdiver]

The average user doesn’t want to and probably couldn’t properly edit a printer file.

[zeugma]

I still find myself back at a terminal screen, manually editing Samba and Cups printer files. Linux desktop is not fully functional yet. I like Linux, but the average user is not ready to do this sort of work just to share a printer.

I hate dealing with printers. The last few versions I haven't had to do much of anything to get them running. Webmin is your friend when dealing with a lot of the stuff that would otherwise have you hand-editing config files.  It even makes sendmail easy.