>Normal network printers were just a matter of clicking "add" and selecting the printer. The entire process took way less time than the Windows printer drive in

>Normal network printers were just a matter of clicking "add" and selecting the printer. The entire process took way less time than the Windows printer drive install took. Only if cups decides to bless autodiscovery today, which often doesn't work properly for a lot of people. If you need to manually configure the protocol and IP/Host of a printer, you already lost the average end user. Having to install SAMBA is likely to be far outside their domain. The dialog to add printers hasn't changed much since a few more famous blog rants in 2008 or so, up to Ubuntu 18.04. It's still user-hostile unless you have some prior knowledge of linux and printer networking.