My mom recently asked me to print something on her old HP printer from her laptop with Windows.
I was having a hard time (the laptop runs very slowly although it is an i5 with 16GB of RAM) so I installed hplip on my laptop and printed it from there.
I had to smile at how easy things have become in Linux that Windows got me frustrated and Linux solved the issue so quickly.
Just download a third party binary? That is the Windows experience. It may work today, but who knows in a few years.
If you buy hardware for personal use, buy what has upstream support instead. If it works out of the box in a Linux desktop today, it will work in ten years time just the same.
This isn't so much of a blog post, though. For this format, I like keeping a notes site (mine is at https://notes.stavros.io/), where I publish small tips and things I want to remember, and figure someone else might need at some point.
My mom recently asked me to print something on her old HP printer from her laptop with Windows.
I was having a hard time (the laptop runs very slowly although it is an i5 with 16GB of RAM) so I installed hplip on my laptop and printed it from there.
I had to smile at how easy things have become in Linux that Windows got me frustrated and Linux solved the issue so quickly.
The product name is mildly amusing. After 39 iterations and 2 revisions, I wonder if every previous version bore the Perfect moniker.
Just download a third party binary? That is the Windows experience. It may work today, but who knows in a few years.
If you buy hardware for personal use, buy what has upstream support instead. If it works out of the box in a Linux desktop today, it will work in ten years time just the same.
I use the same scanner. I think it worked out of the box on Fedora 43.
I wish all blog posts and news articles were this pithy
Me too. Every time I click on a medium link, 5 seconds in and I already closed the tab.
We don't need a thesis. Just get to the damn point.
This isn't so much of a blog post, though. For this format, I like keeping a notes site (mine is at https://notes.stavros.io/), where I publish small tips and things I want to remember, and figure someone else might need at some point.
I use Joplin with a small script I wrote.