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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by t0astbread on Monday November 09, 2020 @12:51PM (#25037443)
I don't know what comes with a $30 HP printer these days but I'm using HPLIP and I'm quite happy with it. Granted, I've never audited it but it's in the Debian repos and I've never heard anything bad about it either. Or did you mean something else?
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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by jasonjayr on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:21PM (#25037803)
On Windows, it's pretty bad. I understand HP has acceptable Linux support, and the driver package on a Linux platform is not as intrusive as the Windows side.
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Re:The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place i... by t0astbread on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:35PM (#25037986)
Ah, I see. I suspected that but I wasn't sure. Which makes me wonder why they're even doing HPLIP in the first place. Printing is only really a thing on the desktop and in business networks but in both cases I'd guess the majority of HP's customers are using Windows.
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