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The Quiet Revolution: GNU/Linux Crosses 6% Desktop Market Share—And It’s Just the Beginning (puri.sm)
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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

All my extended family has been converted to linux because all they need is a browser, libre office and rustdesk for me to tech support them. The only issue is still printers but tbh they are equally awful on all platforms these days.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I thought Linux had decent printer support compared to windows.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It does, in my experience. At least in Linux Mint.

    At home, my old Brother laser is tucked off in a far corner of the house connected to wifi, and my wired home PC as well as my wifi work laptop both see it and can print to it just fine.

    At work even those big printers show up and function.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think they are comparable in that regard honestly?

    Printer manufacturers obviously try their best to make their printers work well with Windows.

    Printer support on Linux is provided by CUPS, which is developed by Apple. Apple wants its Mac (and maybe also iPhone and iPad?) customers to have good printer support, so they try their best to make CUPS work well.

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