An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere

Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere by qwertyuiop924 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:16AM (#13115728)

To contrast, IME, CUPS is a pain. Absolutely awful. Printing Just Works everywhere except Linux.

And I'm using an EPSON printer, too.

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Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere by taeric on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:07PM (#13116212)

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.

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Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere by nine_k on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:34AM (#13115901)

Funnily, macOS uses CUPS internally, iirc.

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Re:An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere by type0 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @10:04PM (#13120143)

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.

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