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For that $30; you also get 1GB of software installed to your computer with all sorts of ads and telemetry sending data back to HP, and making any print operatio
by jasonjayr 6y ago
For that $30; you also get 1GB of software installed to your computer with all sorts of ads and telemetry sending data back to HP, and making any print operation bring your computer to it's knees, and invoke all sorts of popups.
- t0astbread 6y agoI don't know what comes with a $30 HP printer these days but I'm using HPLIP and I'm quite happy with it. Granted, I've never audited it but it's in the Debian repos and I've never heard anything bad about it either. Or did you mean something else?
- jasonjayr 6y agoOn Windows, it's pretty bad. I understand HP has acceptable Linux support, and the driver package on a Linux platform is not as intrusive as the Windows side.
- t0astbread 6y agoAh, I see. I suspected that but I wasn't sure. Which makes me wonder why they're even doing HPLIP in the first place. Printing is only really a thing on the desktop and in business networks but in both cases I'd guess the majority of HP's customers are using Windows.