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Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems crazy to me. Is it a Windows exclusive thing, or is it something they’re rolling out everywhere? I have an Epson printer, only about a year old, and on macOS I don’t have any issues printing or scanning without any Epson software installed on my system. It did pull down drivers when discovering the printer on my network, and I can’t see any features that it would have that I don’t get aside from the “email to print” stuff that I’ve never needed or wanted to use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux is fine too I think. Mostly thanks to the CUPS printing driver

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, mac os uses cups so if it works on Mac's it ought to work on linux