This was shockingly bad last time I needed to do it (years ago) and only had access to Linux devices. I now use my phone for scanning and printing and I've given up on trying to figure it out on my Linux machines.

I love that there's a big jump in adoption for Linux, but I feel it is still stuck in the "hobbyist" space, more suited to people who love to thinker with everything.

There would be wider / faster adoption if there would be some desktop environment with coherent user experience available, but this is the hardest problem to solve and unfortunately one people don't really want to pay for so I doubt we will have it in the near future

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 23 points 13 hours ago

Last time I tried scanning and printing on Windows, it took me over an hour to get the device recognized, the right drivers installed, the printer to actually receive the print job, and so on. Printers are just shitty pieces of hardware, Linux or not.

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