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Completely untrue nowadays... (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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They work better in Linux than Windows, not to mention backwards compatibility.

EDIT: I may be wrong about newest printer models, 2020 and above.

EDIT2: Hardware problems are an entirely different issue.

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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

CUPS is absolutely amazing compared to windows printer drivers which had whole ass critical CVEs several times already.

Even Apple uses CUPS

[-] aard@kyu.de 19 points 9 months ago

CUPS is horrible, and also had its share of critical vulnerabilities. It is just better than the LPD mess we had before.

It is not a Linux specific thing - it was developed when there still were a lot of UNIX variants around. Apple was a very early contributor, and had quite a bit of influence in making it successful.

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It’s no surprise Apple uses CUPS. They wrote it, after all.

Edit: TIL Apple didn’t write CUPS themselves but they bought the company that did it pretty early in the game. Here’s a LWN article from the time, exposing some of the worries that came with the news of the acquisition: https://lwn.net/Articles/242020/

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