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Arch on the Computer, or Arch on the printer…?
Both? Both. Both is good.
Yes.
2 operating systems 1 CUPS
idk I got better results with CUPS lmao
Except when you have a printer with proprietary drivers… (looking at you Brother)
I think it might depend on what model you have. I have a hl-l2395dw (monochrome laser printer) and cups has never failed me. I’ve had zero issues with it and wireless printing works fine, I use arch and mint and both work fine.
Maybe its the newer printers? I bought mine in 2019 or so
My anecdotal experience is based on using cups and not installing brother proprietary drivers
My Brother printer worked fine with the PCL 6 driver. I’d recommend giving that a shot first before trying to install the proprietary ones.
I needed a Windows computer to set up the WiFi but other than that my Brother laser has been working without any trouble and without any configuration. I’m only a lowly Mint peasant, though, not a cool Arch bro.
Yeah, I have a dual boot system and Windows has some flaky USB drivers, disconnects all the time. It only works consistenty with a 1 metre cable, while Linux seems to work with a 5 metres cable.
It’s worth mentioning that Arch wiki is the best place to go to solve that.
I’ve had a brother WiFi printer on the recent past and managed to get it going by… reading carefully the CUPS instructions on Arch wiki.
A month ago, my non-geek uncle had a similar difficulty with his wireless printer. I again got it going by pointing out where to look and what instructions to follow.
So, yes, printer problems on Arch stations are a real thing.
Also a pretty fun movie worth watching once, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” with Nicolas Cage and Pedro Pascal.
Fuckin love OBJ inside a dotted box
It’s as if Nicolas wanted to be treated like an object and put into a cage.
I felt the third act dragged on a bit too long, but otherwise the movie was fun!
Yeah nothing super serious, just a bit outside the scope of some things but didn’t regret it!
Hi dad, what is even a printer in the grander scheme of things? Isn’t all digital data physical in the minds eye anyway? Why print when it is already conceptualized? It’s the same thing!
Installed arch to the printer?
It was to play Doom on it. 😞
I am glad i am not the only one that thought this.
Ironically my printer only works properly on Linux
Windows drivers can be hell at times, even more so than Linux.
i remember having to manually configure CUPS to recognize my hp printer…
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I feel like the people that perpetuate this meme have never used Arch. I’ve ran it on multiple computers for just over a decade and only once have I had an issue. And that one time, it was my fault. It’s been the most solid OS I’ve used.
Meanwhile, my headless Ubuntu server couldn’t do a dist-upgrade without shitting all over itself. I only ran Ubuntu because of the constant “never use Arch for servers” talk. I wish I had never listened to that. Everything I own runs Arch now and it’s so nice.
I get surprised every time I see this meme as I’ve been running arch for about 6 years and I have never experienced anything system-breaking after an update. I once had no graphics because Nvidia had stopped supporting the GTX650, and updating the driver made it stop working. But I have seriously never had any problems updating.
I tried to connect a hard drive once and it took hours. This is more than believable
LOL. I ran manjaro for about a year … tried multiple times to get the brother printer driver installed. Never could do it. Just didn’t print stuff for that year.
Every single other distro I’ve ever used has been able to add the brother printer over wifi and use it within minutes. On OpenSUSE now and works like a charm no issues.
So … yep. Meme tracks!
Manjaro is not Arch!
Welp, actually Linux has a very decent stuck of printer drivers. Mostly, works out of the box unlike windowzzzz
Good men, but also
I use arch btw
Not to be that guy, but for at least a few years recently I have had zero issues printing from arch and tons of issues printing from Windows on the same printer lol
Same here, windows has a nasty habit of randomly changing the IP of the printer when the IP hasn’t changed.
