Printing on Linux
Printing on Linux
I've noticed a general sentiment that printing on Linux is (or at least was) extremely cumbersome and difficult. Why is that?
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An u until live CD will find my decade old HP laser and print to it without any work.
Getting my NIXOS to print at the same printer? About an hour.
Anything on Nix takes a long time
I did have a weird issue with my printer under nix, turns out it was a bug. I guess 1h time investment is about right.
But that also meant that my Laptop and my GF's PC were a 0 seconds time investment.
I think that's neat :D
I kind of like that aspect of it... Is that wrong?
No, it is highly reproducible. I think the idea of Nix OS isn't bad. I actually looked into it for Samba as deploying software on Nix is easy. The problem is that it doesn't scale well.
I think Nix is the future. I feel like at some point we could have fedora ublue for all distros by using nix with GUI configs.
I can't see that happening but you never know