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

  • @linearchaosEnglish
    1•4 months ago

    An u until live CD will find my decade old HP laser and print to it without any work.

    Getting my NIXOS to print at the same printer? About an hour.

      • @[email protected]
        1•4 months ago

        I did have a weird issue with my printer under nix, turns out it was a bug. I guess 1h time investment is about right.

        But that also meant that my Laptop and my GF’s PC were a 0 seconds time investment.

        I think that’s neat :D

      • @linearchaosEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I kind of like that aspect of it… Is that wrong?

        • Possibly linuxEnglish
          1•4 months ago

          No, it is highly reproducible. I think the idea of Nix OS isn’t bad. I actually looked into it for Samba as deploying software on Nix is easy. The problem is that it doesn’t scale well.

          • Caveman
            1•4 months ago

            I think Nix is the future. I feel like at some point we could have fedora ublue for all distros by using nix with GUI configs.