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HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port …

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[-] vector_zero@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
  1. Start with something simple like Mint or Fedora. It's quite easy to use.

  2. Can you be more specific about the specific cable and software? Odds are it works, or it can work with some tinkering.

  3. Brother printers work great in Linux in my experience.

[-] themarty27@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

While your advice is sound, I think you might not have read @jrubal1462's comment in full. They already installed Linux, found FOSS alternatives for the proprietary dive software and their printer, to their shock, worked OOTB.

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