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I use a pair of BT headphones (paired to 2 devices) and a keyboard. Both have worked without a hitch since day one on Ubuntu Mate. Funny enough, it's the only d
by as1mov 4y ago
I use a pair of BT headphones (paired to 2 devices) and a keyboard. Both have worked without a hitch since day one on Ubuntu Mate. Funny enough, it's the only device I own that will work with my prehistoric HP printer from 2005 without any hacks. Newer versions of Windows don't work with it (I probably need to fish out the CD with the drivers), MacOS never did.
- rbut 4y agoI can echo the HP printer comment, mines a printer/scanner. Every time I print or scan on Ubuntu I'm expecting it to not work, as that was my experience on macOS, but it works flawlessly. On macOS the driver was abandoned 6 OS versions back, and I had to do some pkg command line trickery running as root just to get the thing to install.
- simonh 4y agoSorry, I just want to get this straight. We're comparing Linux and MacOS, and having to do command line trickery to do something is a knock against MacOS? Really? I mean if that's a legitimate black mark, that's 1 ding against MacOS and we can bury Linux under a thick pile of back marks.
- vetinari 4y agoIt does not have to be ancient printer; I present you Samsung SL-M2070W, which HP is still selling under some other designation. I can print in MacOS, but I cannot scan. It used to work, but color scanning was broken few years ago, and about two years ago b/w scanning was broken too - Preview or Image Capture will just produce something malformed. There used to be a workaround using Samsung scanning utility, but it doesn't work since Catalina, due to the utility being 32-bit app. So what I do? RDP into other machine that does not have such problems (either Linux or Windows) and then transfer the scanned file. So much for "just works".