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.

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.

Depends on the brand really. Some like HP and Epson haven't worked as good in my own experience compared to Brother.

Decent printers yes, some demons from ninth circle of hell somehow are more problematic on anything non-windows.