• sturlabragason@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Weirdly enough I’ve found it much easier to print on linux. It just works out of the box.

    If it doesn’t it is definetly the printers manufacturer fault 😅

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      3 months ago

      It’s something we can thank Apple for. CUPS is the standard printing system on practically all non-Windows OSes, and Apple hired its developer and did a lot of work on improving it in the 2000s and 2010s.

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        Speaking of hard Windows things being easy on Gnome. The Gnome smb and rdp sharing capabilities work simply turning them on.

        In Windows it’s a whole mess trying to force it to refresh the network or wait for that diagnostic loading bar while it resets everything for it to sometimes work.

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      My printer can print, but most of the other features are locked behind Brothers drivers. Copying/ scanning from the document feeder and duplex were kind of a pain to get working, and for some reason only work from certain programs.

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      3 months ago

      Same here, a certain printer of mine just did not work with my Windows install whatsoever but works fine with CUPS lol

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          Yep, had to do that and spend hours reading about printing services in Linux and other OSs out of curiosity. Was very useful, not that I remember any of it now.

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          Almost like the point of that OS is to know about everything that’s going on in your system because you put it all there yourself, piece by piece!

          A blessing for the privacy-oriented and the people who want to learn about everything.

          A curse for people who just want their computer to work.

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            3 months ago

            Exactly 😅

            I used to use Arch too but I switched to Fedora because everything I installed manually was just installed by default already there. Also nice to be able to update my system from GNOME Software.

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      3 months ago

      Me too. I have a Brother printer. When I first set it up, Windows printed everything in inverse black and white until I hunted down the correct driver. Windows also never figured out how to wake it up, so I always had to manually wake it up. And it simply never worked with the scanner.

      Linux got everything right without me having to fuss with anything.

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      3 months ago

      In my house, I have Linux machines that print flawlessly and reliably to our HP laser. My wife has an iMac and I swear I have to install it fresh every time she goes to print. But the absolute best printing experience? Over WiFi from an iPhone. Crazy.

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      3 months ago

      Easier than what, exactly? Windows always works out of the box for shit like printers. If it didn’t, 99% of their user base would be calling it defective.

      OSX, on the other hand, is where I’ve had so, so many issues with printers.

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        Nah, if you haven’t fought windows printer drivers then you’ve just been lucky. Meanwhile you can almost always convince CUPS to spit out a print.