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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't feel attacked just confused

Drivers are included in the Kernel on linux.

Windows on the other hand...... let's just say it can't handle printers very well

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Printers in general are the devil regardless of OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, my HP P2035 is working great for 7 years straight. I just plug the USB into any Linux or Windows PC, or even through a dongle into my Android phone, I press “Print”, and the thing just prints!

From what I've heard, it seems most laser printers are awesome. And get yourself a Brother, is what people say on the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

If there exists a hell, especially built for IT, it's filled with printers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

nVidia has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was very confused. Only thing one needs to install nowadays is mesa and the correct Vulkan loader

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've just been using Windows for work stuff now and then for over two decades now - so I just have the install scripted so I can just deploy it from scratch whenever I need it, and throw it away afterwards. Before we had multicore CPUs making emulation not annoying I had a sun workstation with a SunPCI card for that.

The one constant over all windows versions is it running into some driver issues for stupid reasons. Now with 11 its the signed drivers - and while you can do exceptions for development I never got unsigned graphics drivers to work.

Also, Windows on ARM is horrible - something as simple as a usb serial adapter doesn't work because there just are no ARM drivers.