Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance

Re:Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubunt... by vachina on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:32AM (#42470561)

Ultimately people care only about what they see, not what they cannot see. An OS is useless if it can’t run Microsoft Office or the thousands of other Windows-only printer drivers. Not to mention the “where’s my start button” crowd.

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Re:Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubunt... by jeltz on Friday December 20, 2024 @08:15AM (#42470821)

Bullshit. Linux uses almost always the same printer drivers as Mac meaning printer support is amazing. Maybe if you if you run something really obscure like a printing press but otherwise everything is supported.

There is hardware Linux struggles with but printers have not been an issue for the last 20 years.

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Re:Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Windows 11 vs. Ubunt... by rbanffy on Friday December 20, 2024 @07:45AM (#42470627)

> thousands of other Windows-only printer drivers

That hasn't been a thing for me since the mid 2000's, thanks to CUPS. From the app side every printer is PostScript (and some even gained features the native driver doesn't have under Windows).

I'd imagine non-CMYK printers might present issues if CUPS doesn't support them, but Apple is one of the maintainers of CUPS and I'd be surprised if that were the case.

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