• Sergey Kozharinov@lem.serkozh.me
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Windows: “We dropped support for that thing you bought brand new 5 years ago”

    Linux: “We are considering dropping support for something that has existed for longer than you had”

    • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Linux: “We’re dropping support for this device because we’re fairly sure we had the last one in existence and it just died.”

    • DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Hell, I can get a 30 year old HP LaserJet 4 printer working just fine on almost any version of Linux with the official HPLIP CLI software provided by (shockingly) HP, which was updated 2 months ago with support for over 50 new printers and the following OSes:

      • LinuxMint 21.1
      • MxLinux 21.3
      • Elementary OS 7
      • Ubuntu 22.10
      • RHEL 8.6
      • RHEL 8.7
      • RHEL 9.1
      • Fedora 37

      I HATE HP and their printers (PC LOAD LETTER WTF FOR LIFE) but I will admit that this is impressive support.