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I've noticed a general sentiment that printing on Linux is (or at least was) extremely cumbersome and difficult. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not been my experience.

Granted, printers suuuuuck. But I was legit surprised when both the printing and scanning functions in Linux were hands down better than windows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SAME. Everything prints faster and worked well from day one.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We raise our CUPS to your pun.

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[–] Fijxu 2 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Same! I'm not at my computer at the moment so I can't check the name of the scanning app i use but yeah, works perfectly. I use a Brother printer as well which I also can't remember the model name of.