For the printers, you are right in that it’s far from being a solved problem on macos. I had an EPSON all in one before, and it was also a pain to get everything working. If I remember correctly the generic driver could print, but we didn’t get “advanced” options without going through the EPSON pkg installer and all the garbage coming with it. I’d totally imagine the linux driver being done cleaner than that.

For the record I’ve worked with a decent number of devs using linux workstations, so I totally vouch for your use case. I’d just temper the niche nature of multi-language support; that’s an everyday need for basically all Asia. Granted my use of shortcuts is niche (I wouldn’t need them if I had enough keys), but looking at maintenance projects annual reports there seem to be a sizeable amount of quality of life fixes still on the way.