I'll tell you what I'm loosing in linux. More precisely, what I think is the main problem with linux. It is lack of convenient and integrated support for fonts and printing.
Fonts: if you can see a font, does not mean you can print it; if you can print with font, does not mean you can see it on the screen. Especially international. Too many formats, and each application has to provide its own fonts: X, tetex, staroffice, wordperfect, abiword, ghostscript - all have separate fonts. TrueType fons are accessible through xfstt, but you still can't print them and xfstt reports incorrect character set. Printing: It works acceptable when you have a simple dumb printer, but when you've got a $3000 beast there is no simple way to use its capabilities: no way to select 1-or-2-sided printing, a paper tray, etc. With Windows, Mac and SGI - no problem, just choose the appropriate option. The only way I see in linux - is to create a buch of queues for each combination of options. It would be cool to have a SGI's glp-like utility, but it seem to need a SysV type printing. Sergey.
