On 26 March 2018 at 11:17, Alex Volkov via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I've configured several HP inkjet printers in my life, and in my experience, for the novice user -- compiling and installing linux kernel from scratch is a much more straightforward process.
That had been my experience as well, but I have to say I was super impressed with a clean install of Kubuntu 18.04 Beta yesterday, my first distro change in quite a while (predicated by the announcement that Mint is dropping KDE support in its next release).
Didn't configure a thing. During the install it recognized the printer. found the right driver and was ready for duplex printing from the first boot.
(I notice it also installed hplip by default, though my printer is a Brother multifunction.)
So far (touch wood) there have been few glitches for a beta. One is a weird one that I will report -- you can't have curl and spotify desktop installed at the same time. Both work, but to install one apt has to uninstall the other. I suspect it's a spotify dependency problem.