Car insurance is relatively simple. I shop around, telling them how much
coverage I want. They request my driving history, and give me a quote. At any
time, I can shop around and change insurance policies without any problems. Once
it’s time to collect payment, it’s a relatively simple matter. What makes health
insurance so difficult, controlling, unreliable, and expensive? For example,
with health insurance: * Can only shop during a specific enrollment period *
Policies are so complex, the vast majority of the population can’t understand
them * It’s commonly provided in part by the employer because buying a policy
otherwise is prohibitively expensive * Insurance companies are notorious for
denying payments
That’s a bit overblown, even on Arch you basically install CUPS, start it, plug in your printer and you’re good to go with most printers, especially IPP ones. Even autodiscovery with mDNS works! Just need to be on the same WiFi network and the printers just show up in the list.
It’s one of the things that usually is a better experience than Windows, because Windows printing is absolutely ancient and hasn’t been upgraded in forever.
Printing on windows is even hard to manage. It’s so bad that MS is just pushing Universal Print, which basically bypasses the decades of printing cruft.
Was going to say that, CUPS is great, have had less issues with printers in linux than windows, worked flawlessly when I was troubleshooting a 20+ year old office grade LaserJet for my in-laws (which turned out to be a weird issue with the hub it was plugged into and windows 10 waking from sleep as far as I could tell) and also just works with the older network laser printer I have now.
Sometimes it prints, sometimes it prints the first page for however many pages in the document, sometimes it says it prints but does nothing, sometimes it errors, sometimes I have to restart CUPS, sometimes I have to delete the autodiacovered printer and make a new one.
That’s a bit overblown, even on Arch you basically install CUPS, start it, plug in your printer and you’re good to go with most printers, especially IPP ones. Even autodiscovery with mDNS works! Just need to be on the same WiFi network and the printers just show up in the list.
It’s one of the things that usually is a better experience than Windows, because Windows printing is absolutely ancient and hasn’t been upgraded in forever.
Printing on windows is even hard to manage. It’s so bad that MS is just pushing Universal Print, which basically bypasses the decades of printing cruft.
Was going to say that, CUPS is great, have had less issues with printers in linux than windows, worked flawlessly when I was troubleshooting a 20+ year old office grade LaserJet for my in-laws (which turned out to be a weird issue with the hub it was plugged into and windows 10 waking from sleep as far as I could tell) and also just works with the older network laser printer I have now.
This has not been the case for me.
Sometimes it prints, sometimes it prints the first page for however many pages in the document, sometimes it says it prints but does nothing, sometimes it errors, sometimes I have to restart CUPS, sometimes I have to delete the autodiacovered printer and make a new one.
It’s always a drama.