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Thcdenton, in Completely untrue nowadays...

Printers fucking suck.

AnUnusualRelic, (edited )
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Back in the day you’d just cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 and it would work. Mostly.

kuneho, (edited ) in Completely untrue nowadays...
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

lp0 is still on fire tho…

lp0_on_fire,

Say what now?

kuneho,
@kuneho@lemmy.world avatar

you sir, are fire

fruitycoder, in Completely untrue nowadays...

Has anyone had luck or experience with using IPP for printing from Linux? A standard networking protocol for printing sounds like it should make a lot of these problems mute.

ikidd,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Works as intended usually.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yep, works OK on one of my setups at work.

Galds, in Completely untrue nowadays...

My printer used to integrate perfectly with windows 11. I was using some Ancient driver I found on some internet archive. windows updater found a new drive, now it’s a mess of different UIs to print or scan shit

0x4E4F, (edited )
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

There is a way to disable driver updates via Windows update.

Do a rollback on the driver, should bring back the old driver.

marcos, in Btw i used Arch!

What happened?

Unyieldingly,

It Broke far to many times, I used Arch Linux for about 5 years or longer, systemd fixed a lot of stuff, and some of the other changes, but i needed a more production stable system.

I use ZFS Bootmenu with Debian Stable+flatpak and some backports these days and so for i only broke my system once.

vsh,
@vsh@lemm.ee avatar

No way. Bleeding edge distribution broke? You had 5 years to hop on a better distro. Blame yourself.

Unyieldingly,

I’m not blaming Arch it’s a meme, you don’t have to get mad about it.

I have broken or had the OS shit the bed with Android, DOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Mint, SUSE, Redhat Linux, Mac OSX, IOS, and many copy’s of Windows in my years. mostly with Windows it just shits the bed, you don’t even have to try, Mac OS 7/8/9 use to love shitting the bed as well.

I use to boot to Fedora, Mint, or Windows as well, mostly as backups (I used Linux for over 20 years) but I used Arch mainly as my Gaming OS, but i did some Dev on Arch as well, Arch is good long as stuff is not broken, it use to be if you installed a lot of packages, Arch was happy to break on you, now with flatpak that is not so much the case like it use to be, Arch is getting better thanks to upstream dev’s taking away all the wiring we had to do over the years down stream.

Arch with Bcachefs and Flatpak + pipeware and KDE Wayland is looking good to me, when Bcachefs is ready maybe with Kernel 7.0? next year i may try Arch once more.

marcos,

Oh, I thought there was some large change on the distro.

I can relate. I’ve kept to the top of the hill for decades already.

prosp3kt, in Btw i used Arch!

I agree, KDE is totally broken in old TVs. So I have to live without power management no blanking and no suspension lol…

AVincentInSpace,

sorry, wait, back up, did you manage to install a desktop Linux environment on a TV

prosp3kt,

No lol I just connected an old TV CHHWJT on my PC. Not old at all 7950x 7900xt and powerdevil is broken

callyral, in Btw i used Arch!
@callyral@pawb.social avatar

what about debian sid

eskuero,
@eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws avatar

Sid users are just future arch users but without time for a clean reinstall.

neonred, (edited )

Is “I use Debian sid btw” a meme now? Please? 🥺

Because “sid + nix” is currently a really nice experience for me.

variants, in Completely untrue nowadays...

My printer has to go through like 5 power cycles for it to even detect its ink cartridges. I guess thats what i get for taking the ewaste printer from the office

sebinspace,

Atleast it was free? I did the same thing, took office salvage. I’ll be replacing it soon with a laser printer.

lseif,

a free printer is always awesome, but youll mostly spend money on ink anyway

dnick,

A free printer might be awesome if it’s laser…a free ink jet printer is like saying you got stabbed ‘for free’. I mean, yeah, it was free.

AFC1886VCC, in Completely untrue nowadays...

I used to have a MacBook Pro and the printer worked perfectly when I printed from it, whereas my windows PC always had issues.

sebinspace,

I had the opposite experience, it even works with my Steam Deck.

Printers are weird…

jbk, in Btw i used Arch!

Flatpak? What?

Unyieldingly,

Flatpak will have the newest Mesa and Nvidia Drivers, etc, Flatpak is almost like having a rolling release.

possiblylinux127, in Let's go! (sorry i used WSL i have my own reasons for it...)

Slightly unrelated but cygwin will run better on windows (its way lighter)

QuaternionsRock,

Can Cygwin run Linux GUI programs effectively? What about GPU-bound workloads? Would happily switch if the answer to both of those is yes.

possiblylinux127,

You can run GUI apps but I’m not sure about GPU workloads. Wouldn’t bare metal be the best for that?

QuaternionsRock,

Wouldn’t bare metal be the best for that?

Technically yes, but WSL2 is remarkably close to optimal in terms of throughput. Unlike WSL1 (a type 2 hypervisor), WSL2 requires Hyper-V (a type 1 hypervisor), meaning Windows also runs as a VM once it’s enabled. The Linux vGPU driver still needs to go through the Windows Nvidia driver as far as I know, but that is seldom the bottleneck for CUDA applications.

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

true it uses a Microsoft Hypervisor Virtual Machine

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

i dont mind the GUI… but is Cygwin open source? just knowing

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yep, that’s what I use as well… in Windows I mean.

azerial,

AHHHH “Has ptsd flashbacks from having to use Cygwin on a mixed build environment for a popular MMO that’s about some kind of war up in the stars…” lol NOT THE CYGDRIVE lol jk but it did take me back ~5 years.

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

i try to understand that…

lapingvino,

Best option is still Git Bash 🙃

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

most true :3

gornius,

Better in which way? WSL2 is a VM running ALONGSIDE Windows, not inside. Its performance is basically bare metal. If you have enough RAM, there is no reason to use cygwin instead of WSL2.

possiblylinux127,

In that case why don’t you just run a VM or install bare metal. WSL strips you of control just like Windows itself does.

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

its complicated as i replied to someone else’s comment…

im not a “it just works” user too but its complicated to explain why i use windows for now (but ill switich soon)

like im totally a FOSS enthusiast but like…

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

its complicated please dont blame me for WSL

Picture_Pig,
@Picture_Pig@lemmy.world avatar

thanks

gmtom, in Completely untrue nowadays...

A Linux meme that’s somewhat critical of Linux?

I wonder what the comments will be like…

Ziglin,

Linux has printer problems? Printing works fine for me…

Famko,

It’s not really critical of Linux, it’s criticising those stupid fucking printers in general

mavu, in Completely untrue nowadays...

Just don’t buy HP/Epson/Canon.

Buy a Brother Laserprinter, and never worry again for the rest of your life.

0x4E4F,
@0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works avatar

Trouble is, no parts for Brother over here 😔. HP has the market here and parts for them are dirt cheap.

Sure, I can order from AliExpress, but it’ll take months to arrive here.

psycho_driver, in Btw i used Arch!

I’m glad they got the order right. I feel like gentoo should be piloting a nuclear submarine targeting the Orca though.

udon, in Btw i used Arch!

Actually the Arch penguins jump happily on their own

Pirasp,

And then they go on to fight the predators to make it safe for the rest

XTL,

And they send maps that the others can use.

UnfortunateShort, (edited )

The documentary host went on:

After hearing about their “totally riced” setup for hours, the exhausted predator dies a painless death in the icy waters. A mercy the breedable Rust peers of the Arch user, drunk on their freshly claimed victory, will not share. Already displaying socks as part of their mating ritual, no baby-faced creature that knows its way around a terminal is safe. They are not taken by force however. Rather they freeze, smitten by the confidence the incredibly annoying apex predator radiates. Feeling used, but also strangely satisfied, the confused boy is left wondering why they aren’t using Arch, when Wiki and the AUR are so incredibly useful. Maybe it’s that symbiosis that keeps them together: Curiosity, Fear and the common Arch user’s incredible displays of power.

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