[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

It's unfair to use printers as an example. For one, they're still a huge problem in Linux, but for two they're universally regarded as some of the crappiest things to work with in all of IT.

[vetinari]

Printers under Linux have also one positive feature: if the specific model is supported, it is really plug and play.

The hard part is to choose, which model to purchase.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

In my experience that is not true. The few printers I've had to set up on a Linux device required me to go find PPDs.

[vetinari]

My experience is, that I go to the printer control panel and the printer is already there.

Fedora & Ubuntu; mostly HP printers.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

You sound like everyone who talks about how Linux "just works" if only they choose exactly the right hardware and distribution combination.

[vetinari]

Well, if you choose a more hardcore distribution that doesn't "just work" and requires tinkering, it is hardly a Linux fault.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

For the record, the last time I did this it was Ubuntu and I think the printer was Brother. Neither particularly uncommon. Point is, because you're an apologist it literally doesn't matter what my circumstances are, you'll try to blame me anyways.