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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I'm so frustrated rn. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there's always something that doesn't work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven't been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there's always something that's broken in every distro.

I'm sorry I'm just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What printer do you have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I have an epson L4260, I downloaded a driver that was supposedly for Debian, it was a .deb file that I installed but nothing happened, I added the printer but it just wouldn't print.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Are you using it via WiFi or usb? Are you able to see both the printer and the scanner in the printer configuration panel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm just taking a guess here but is the .deb you installed a program you have to run to do the setup? My one printer I had to run a program to start scanning every time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That printer shouldn't even need a driver to work. It should just show up if it's connected to the same network as your computer.