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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 😅
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.
Printing and also scanning. The Gnome scanning tool is like, so much easier and more intuitive than any of the other BS software I used on Windows, and I don't have to install proprietary spyware.
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.
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.
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.
Same here, a certain printer of mine just did not work with my Windows install whatsoever but works fine with CUPS lol
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.
not on arch, you have to install cups and enable the service or socket.
That's just how Arch works, you have to install everything yourself
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.
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.
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.
Many distros leave printing support out by default these days. It is just not something everybody needs anymore.
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.
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.
Are you suggesting that Linux has better printer driver support than the system that 99% of that printers users use?
Yes. MacOS uses CUPS too btw.
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