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

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Funny enough, my shitbox HP Inkjet is actually faster to install on Linux and Gnome Scan is way better than any proprietary scanning software I've used

[–] RidcullyTheBrown@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I could never get the scanner to work on that cannon printer. For printing, I couldn't get the paper size to work at all. My PDF paper size was A4, my phisical paper was A4, my printer was set to print on A4, but it still the footer was truncated from the page.

[–] punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Canon does make Linux drivers for at least some of their printers (like mine), but they can be hard to find. I can't remember exactly how I got to mine but I know it took a few attempts.

Maybe you're particularly unlucky though, because my Canon works perfectly with either the built in CUPS driver or the one from Canon.

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