Daniel,
This is my assessment as well, there seems to be a bit of cheerleading going on from the “going to take over Windows crowd” that just aren’t dealing in reality. Stroll over to slashdot and read through some of the tech forums on this.
Again, the very thing that makes Linux great is also its Achilles Heel. It will always be the choice of the power-users out there or people that don’t want to conform to Windows of OSX debate.
Recently acquired a Lexmark printer...and they do have a driver for Ubuntu which I installed and voila... the printer works on the 32 bit version of Mint....
Now if they would supply a driver for the scanner I could use that too.
So why is it a Linux problem if some function of a product doesn't work?