• infinitevalence@discuss.online
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    1 year ago

    honestly one of the things I had no idea about was how fucked up windows printer drivers were. I used to think it was just because they were all crap, but then I fully moved to linux and discovered that Microsoft is the issue! Printers just work in linux.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I remember being super confused that my printer just worked without any extra effort the first time I tried Linux!

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        1 year ago

        I’m interested, because I’m having the opposite experience. I can not for the life of me get my HP network printer to work with Debian. I’ve added it through CUPS, and it works well for a bit, but then after a few restarts I have to add it again.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve never owned a wifi printer which may be the difference - with all of the ones I’ve used in the past I just plugged them in via USB and they just worked!