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I'm planning on it.
I tried a rest run with Kubuntu on an old laptop I had, and it runs 95% flawlessly. My biggest issue is my new Brother printer that I'm trying to install connected to Wi-Fi. The system sems to know it's there, but then doesn't seem to install the drivers. My Android phone prints there just fine.
I assume you tried adding a new printer through KDE? There's usually no driver needed if all you need to do is simply print/scan.
Does it fail with both options?
I thank you sincerely for getting back to me on this. I wanted to let you know I just figured it out! I thought I'd document it for the next person to come along.
I had tried all of the options in that screenshot, and none seemed to work.
Investigating further, it was a Brother printer, so I needed to download special drivers: https://support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=us&lang=en&content=dl
Then, arcane magic needed to be performed on the command line: https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=mfcj4335dw_us_eu&os=128&dlid=dlf006893_000&flang=4&type3=625
I had done all that, but I still had a problem. Digging through the script output, apparently I had a bad "libsane" installed with apt. Also, to add to the problems, apt doesn't recognize the string "libsane" now. We are to use its new name "libsane1" now in apt! So, I tried to reinstall and then reinstall the brother printer drivers, to no avail. Eventually, I had to completely uninstall libsane, and then reinstall it. And everything magically worked.
It's so easy! 🤨
One thing to be ready to have is the IP number of the printer, which I was able to get in the WiFi options of the printer.
Whew! Test page printed on my test machine! I feel like this was my last major hurdle before adopting Linux on other machines.
Again, thanks for responding!
Thanks for documenting it for future people! Glad you got it to work.