They work better in Linux than Windows, not to mention backwards compatibility.

EDIT: I may be wrong about newest printer models, 2020 and above.

EDIT2: Hardware problems are an entirely different issue.

  • arglebargleEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    My scanner/printer works flawlessly ij Linux. It’s fantastic. I cannot get it to work in windows, but no big deal I rarely use windows anyways.

    But it is amusing that it simply will not work in windows.

    And this printer is from 2023.

    • @droans
      2•1 year ago

      Set up a CUPS server and it’ll work fine with Windows too.

      Printers are a massive headache on both. But at least with CUPS it’s only a massive headache once.

      • arglebargleEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I could, but you would think their own driver would work!

        Not a pain on Linux at all. Printing is a breeze. As is scanning. Go figure.

        • @droans
          1•1 year ago

          It always comes down to the vendor and driver.

          On Linux, I had to go through a dozen different drivers and just as many driver versions before I found the one that worked with my printer. For Windows, it worked immediately.

          With my old printer, though, it was the opposite experience. Took forever to get it working on Windows but Linux got it immediately.

          You’d think by now, with the dozen different printing standards that exist, we’d have some sort of plug and play driver that could work with every printer.