Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11

• troed@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah that sounds bad :/ All Brother here with no issues. Esp. Linux Mint just autodetects and sets everything up directly.

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mint detected my Brother but nothing could print until I downloaded a driver from Brother’s website. Buttery smooth since.

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  • the16bitgamer@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Needed to install drivers to get full features like double sided printing. However they are easy enough to install

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Eh, my in-laws have the same problem… but on windows

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• anon5621@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Can u tell ur model of printer maybe I can help I had fight a bit with canon printer too a bit but in the end it started working

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  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’d have to look at it when I get home, I have no clue off the top of my head.

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• DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We use a Canon at work, behind a print server called UniPrint, or some shit. I figured out how to use it to print from a USB drive long before I finally caved and mailed the guy who maintains it to ask how to get my KDE Neom machine to successfully send a print job. I figured out how to see it, I could check the toner levels, but I could not send a print.

  Works now, because he changed a setting.

  Bastard printers.

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• somenonewho@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Let me tell you:

  I’ve been using Linux exclusively since ~2010 and moved my mum over back when XP got canned. Printers always have been and still are the bane of my existence. From what I know from other people working in IT printers are always bad, however of course the driver support situation in Linux is so much worse. My mum used to have a Samsung mfp that would print in Linux (most of the time) but I could not for the life of me figure out how to get it to scan reliably. In the end I’ve set her up with a dual boot with a simple “click here to switch to Windows” button so she could scan in there (saving the scans to a NAS)

  From my experience printers mostly either work or don’t work in Linux. If you are looking for a new printer I’ve only had food experiences with Brother. If you already have a printer and it’s not working right I can recommend sxouring through forums for that one wisdom of the ancients that can help (and possibly sacrificing a goat)

  I bow also have a Canon printer (it was a gift) and with the official Linux drivers it worked for years. Recently it just wouldn’t print from Linux anymore till I switched the drivers to the generic “Guteprint” now it’s printing fine again …

  Tl;dr: printers are evil and Linux drivers are sometimes making them worse

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ironically my fedora computer connected out of the box, but my wife’s windows laptop breaks the printer each time it tries to connect.

  If there’s a firmware update available I have to manually update the printer firmware after her computer tries to print.

  Mac and Linux work fine 100% of the time.

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can get mine to speak to my shitberg printer, but I went and bought bootleg ink cartridges and I have a half-day printer battle on my to do list to reset the ink levels and force the printer to accept non-HP ink into its heart.

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• figjam@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve been trying to get my MIL’s printer working forever.

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• CommanderShepard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Check if you selected the correct driver

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