Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
by sevensor on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:24AM
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Anecdotal support: after Vista broke printing for half of the world's terrible cheap inkjets, I spent nearly a decade using terrible cheap inkjets I picked up for next to nothing on craigslist. They almost universally had Linux drivers, and when the ink ran out I would get another one.
Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:16AM
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To contrast, IME, CUPS is a pain. Absolutely awful. Printing Just Works everywhere except Linux.
And I'm using an EPSON printer, too.
Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
by taeric on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:07PM
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I'm pretty sure if you are ever at a point where you know the name of a service implementation, it likely forced you to use it in anger.
Which is to say, I had forgotten printing was with CUPS since it has been a long time since I had to mess with it. Hate to hear it went so poorly for you.
Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
by nine_k on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:34AM
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Funnily, macOS uses CUPS internally, iirc.
Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
by type0 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:04PM
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Here is a guy also being terribly disappointed with Linux about CUPS to the point that he said he will stop using it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chgyL7u4Qs
For me personally, I would rather buy a new printer, the freedom of being able to change the software to run the way I want it is worth so much more.
It is frustrating that I can just start printing from my ubuntu machine, but have to figure out how to get the right drivers for my other machines.
As a standard caveat, I don't actually use that many devices on my network. So, YMMV. A lot.