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

  • Greyghoster
    5·
    2 months ago

    The Canon Pixma has always problematic for me with driver issues.

    • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 months ago

      Interesting, I have no problems with a Pixma TS8350. Printing is working as shitty as it has always been on Windows. I have yet to configure the scanner to be fair.

      • Greyghoster
        1·
        2 months ago

        The Canon driver needs to be installed on Fedora and has never worked out of the box without some tweaking. Canon is not really in the Linux support game.

        • gigachad@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          2 months ago

          Ii admit it didn’t work out of the box on Mint as well, but didn’t take more then 10 minutes of tweaking. But yes, I would not call it “Linux-friendly”.