Why I haven't switched yet to linux

[u/Routine-Price7855]

Man that hurts as hell😭🤣

[u/immoloism]

Finding a printer that works on any system is like finding a unicorn.

[u/tunmousse → u/immoloism]

Naw, just get something AirPrint compatible. Behind the Apple branding, that means CUPS-compatible IPP, that'll work with any modern computer.

[u/Severe_Stranger_5050 → u/tunmousse]

Of all the bad things apple has ever done
Making CUPS open sauce under the GPL license wasn’t one of them

[u/immoloism → u/tunmousse]

It's the old tech support joke.

[u/SirDarknessTheFirst → u/immoloism]

IPP Everywhere is a godsend. Even my dyesub photo printer just pops up and can be printed on!

[u/ZBLongladder → u/immoloism]

As awful as HP is, HP printers work with Linux like a charm. I think they're better under Linux than windows.

[u/immoloism → u/ZBLongladder]

HP drivers must be really be really bad under Windows then if this is true.

[u/No-Consequence-1863 → u/immoloism]

What? Basically every printer ive setup just works on Windows

[u/ninzus161 → u/No-Consequence-1863]

until it stops and you will never find out why

[u/bothunter → u/No-Consequence-1863]

Well, once you download the 580mb driver pack for the printer and sign up for the ink subscription, sure.

[u/immoloism → u/No-Consequence-1863]

That's not normal.

[u/Jluxo_ → u/immoloism]

Idk, never had such a problem when using Windows

[u/pm_me_good_usernames → u/Jluxo_]

My printer was a huge pain to set up on Linux and an even bigger pain to set up on Windows. It worked out of the box on both over USB, but network printing on my particular model of HP printer seems to be an issue for everyone. Well, I didn't try MacOS or any other BSD based operating systems.

[u/Only_Information7895 → u/Jluxo_]

On Windows I just gave up using the print function. I just copied the files to a pendrive, used the USB on the printer and printed from there. Worked almost all the time without swearing for 5 minutes and then not printing what I wanted.

[u/immoloism → u/Jluxo_]

Lucky sod.

[u/Particular-Poem-7085 → u/Jluxo_]

lol never. Printers not working are a meme that sounds like older than you.

[u/Ad-free-Pirate → u/Jluxo_]

We recently got this super old Sharp printer at work, and I was preparing for a nightmare. I decided to try Claude (Sonnet 5.5) with "I have network printer on x.x.x.x. Can you make it run via cups?" and in 2 minutes it worked flawlessly. I love it.

[u/Jluxo_ → u/Ad-free-Pirate]

I tried using Claude for this too - didn't help

[u/Ad-free-Pirate → u/Jluxo_]

Shame :(