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Printing is so much easier to do on Linux than on Windows now. I think at some point a group of people must have decided that they weren't going to be the butt
by jon-wood 11y ago
Printing is so much easier to do on Linux than on Windows now. I think at some point a group of people must have decided that they weren't going to be the butt of any more jokes about printing, and decided to completely fix it.
Setting up my home printer under Windows takes me the best part of 30 minutes every single time I need to do it. Under Linux its detected automatically, and works first time.
- yankcrime 11y agoThat group of people was Apple. They threw their weight behind the CUPS project in the early 2000s, hired the main developer, and continued to finance its development.
- jon-wood 11y agoI'd completely forgotten about Apple's involvement with CUPS, but that does explain a lot. Between that and Bonjour/Zeroconf early 2000s Apple made my home networking life so much easier.