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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What about when they buy a new printer and need drivers. Or want to install some software they heard about that only works on Windows/Mac? I am a software developer and still struggle to find a use case where Linux would be better than Windows. If it's not a game that won't work then it's an IDE that's unavailable. There always seems to be something that isn't fully compatible or doesn't have a functional equivalent in Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    What about when they buy a new printer and need drivers.

    Printers have "just worked" on Linux for longer than Windows has provided drivers through Windows Update. What printer do you have that requires special drivers in Linux?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    Canon Pro 9000 mkii. It works but in a basic mode. There is no way to select a color profile or borderless printing. There is no way to clean the nozzles. Our Brother Laser Printer on TrueNas was a huge pain to find drivers for it to get air print to work correctly. I think I spent an entire work day messing with CUPS until I got things working properly.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    This is why I still have windows on the machines at home. There’s always some niche device, especially for my wife’s crafting, that only supports windows.

    But then at work thanks to VMs I use windows and Linux side by side every day.