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    [–] Metz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Printer are worse. try to get a decade old brother to print more than a half page without completely freezing and needing a hard restart. driver is unmaintained unfortunately.

    on Windows the printer works perfect though. which makes me quite unhappy :|

    wifi on the other hand is not a problem i can remember. even on a 15 year old laptop, the AUR has a driver that it extracts from a ancient .deb and then patches it to make it work with modern kernels. lovely.

    [–] Longpork_afficianado@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

    It's the newer Wi-Fi chips that have issues, those for which drivers aren't yet released. There always seems to be a year-long delay between the next gen laptops being released and the wifi drivers for them.

    [–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What about cups, they have no driver for that printer there?

    I have a LaserJet 1000, 20+ years old, only works Linux and Windows x86 πŸ˜‚... so I just set up a peint server and shared it 🀷.

    [–] Metz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The driver shows up as "cups + gutenprint" and as far i can tell there is no other. so i guess that is already the one and only available driver.

    and i have to correct myself, it is a Canon, not a Brother. Canon MX300 from 2007.

    I mean it is not that big of a deal anyway. there is a single Windows machine left in this household that i can use for print jobs. and yeah, maybe i could use it as print server, that is actually a interesting idea lol.

    [–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Try searching online for cups filters. Maybe someone made a custom filter file for that printer that works... worth a shot 🀷. I've had luck hunting down custom filters for some obscure printers in the past.

    Setting up a shared printer in Windows is (could be) a PITA though... not being able to choose SMB versions can make your Linux setups with SMB a pain πŸ˜”. That's why I prefer Linux with samba as the print server, you can fine tune almost everything to make it work with any Windows and Linux install.

    [–] Metz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    thanks for the tip, i will have a look!

    and yeah, funny enough i had less problems getting SMB to work between linux and windows than windows and windows despite it being a Microsoft native.

    [–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Also, true story, LTSC 2019 can't see shares from LTSC 2021, but the opposite works without a problem 🀣. It was a bug, they eventually fixed it, but took them like a year or so (they threw the ball at users, not setting up the shares correctly πŸ˜’), and I already reinstalled all rigs with LTSC 2019, so... too late MS 🀷... I haven't used LTSC 2021 from that point on.

    [–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

    On windows the printer works perfectly

    Well, now I've heard everything.

    [–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I specifically bought a Brother printer because they at least try to support Linux. My previous one Samsung was much worse, it had Google cloud print so I could still use it. But Google like always killed something people liked.