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Applause! You brought a tear to my eye. After living a luxuriant Apple-only lifestyle I've had to start supporting PCs again. Re-entering the Junkspace that is Windows has been punishing.

UI completely untouched since 1995. Thickets of new dialog boxes. Incredibly thick layers of shovelware. Grotesque artwork. Limitations that come out of nowhere that require Windows Pro Premium Whatever. IE toolbar/BHO hell. The printer thing alone, sweet Jesus. I literally gave up trying to share a single USB printer to two other workstations over the LAN. It's so unnecessarily difficult it's unreal.

The Mac-o-verse has the same volume of pain, punishment, and failure as the Windows platform, but it usually tends to cluster on the outside of the possibility space. Their failings aren't sitting there in plain view waiting for you to stub your toe.



For your printer problems, funnily enough installing Bonjour for Windows on both machines can help quite a lot.


I've done that quite a bit, but only to make printer discovery on the network actually happen. Are you saying you can use it to share out printers as well?


Ah, sorry. I had sharing and discovery confused. I thought Bonjour allowed (easier) installation of shared printers though.




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