> And if your printer isn't supported out-of-the box by CUPS?
Then it's still not hard/advanced to do since it's not possible.
> Anyway I just chose that as an example. You can pick on my particular example if you > want, but I think my general point still holds.
My point remains: I think you're pretty badly out of touch with state of the art in Linux configuration (I know, my first clue was "twm"). I very happily run several systems on Fedora without ever having brought up a shell on them.