I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

    • Kawi@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      I have an epson L4260, I downloaded a driver that was supposedly for Debian, it was a .deb file that I installed but nothing happened, I added the printer but it just wouldn’t print.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        That printer shouldn’t even need a driver to work. It should just show up if it’s connected to the same network as your computer.

      • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I’m just taking a guess here but is the .deb you installed a program you have to run to do the setup? My one printer I had to run a program to start scanning every time.

      • ik5pvx@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Are you using it via WiFi or usb? Are you able to see both the printer and the scanner in the printer configuration panel?