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My elderly parents got the "your computer cannot be upgraded" and my somewhat tech-litterate mom asked me to move them to Linux.
Microsoft should've realised at some point that the only thing most people need today is a computer that can run a web browser and connect to a printer.
I cannot the life of me get my Linux laptop to use my fucking Canon WiFi printer. It detects the printer, says it's connected, but it simply will not send a print job to it. Windows, iOS and android all use it just fine...but this fucking Linux machine just won't, I've spent hours fiddling with drivers and nothing works, it's infuriating!
Yeah that sounds bad :/ All Brother here with no issues. Esp. Linux Mint just autodetects and sets everything up directly.
Needed to install drivers to get full features like double sided printing. However they are easy enough to install