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The immutable thing is nice, though it takes some getting used to. It's Fedora which I already love, without any of the hassle. Everything just works. I never realized how much time I was wasting until I didn't have to do it anymore. Every task I throw at it, it performs beautifully, even things I'm sure aren't going to work out of the box do. Every time, so far.
I was surprised how well it handles printers. We have an old Brother wireless laser mfp. It was pretty cool when it just saw the printer automatically, but I was really impressed with how easy scanning was.
I started going down the rabbit hole of manually installing and configuring it, but then tested some simple terminal command and it already saw the scanner. Ran skanpage and Bob's your uncle.
I think you are the first person to ever have had issues with printers on Linux if you are surprised by them working on Bazzite. Printers are one of the things that almost always "just work" on Linux, and are only a driver headache on Windows
To be fair, the he last time I was daily driving Linux was probably 20 years ago. I only came back in the last ~2 years.
You must have uncanny luck with printers then. The printer I have I bought for it's Linux support and I still have problems.
Across 3 offices and hundreds of PCs literally have never personally seen a issue with printers on Linux that wasnt like I forgot to hook it up to the network or something stupid.
Printers tend to just work.