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I've noticed a general sentiment that printing on Linux is (or at least was) extremely cumbersome and difficult. Why is that?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, it is highly reproducible. I think the idea of Nix OS isn't bad. I actually looked into it for Samba as deploying software on Nix is easy. The problem is that it doesn't scale well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think Nix is the future. I feel like at some point we could have fedora ublue for all distros by using nix with GUI configs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I can't see that happening but you never know