Comment by chrisfosterelli
10 years ago
I can say my experience matches the above posters as well. Printing in Ubuntu works better than OSX and Windows for the 4 different printers I use regularly.
10 years ago
I can say my experience matches the above posters as well. Printing in Ubuntu works better than OSX and Windows for the 4 different printers I use regularly.
My experience with both OSX and Windows is that you just need to plug a printer in and it just works. Can't remember that ever happening with BSD/Linux in my experience. :( But it sounds like things have improved which is good to know.
In Arch Linux (and this is Arch Linux) all I ever had to do was install avahi (explained in the docs) and CUPS would find the printers automatically. On the other hand, I know of several cases where an OS X machine would cause unauthenticated printers on the same network (without any printing being done by the user) to start printing hundreds of pages of what looked like service discovery packets.
>My experience with both OSX and Windows is that you just need to plug a printer in and it just works.
It's never been that way for Windows: you've obviously never used a network printer in a large office.