It is time for another Linux Mint microblog!
My wife had trouble printing on our pretty old wifi connected Epson color printer. The driver provided by Epson got a 1 star review from her after trying it.
And....drum roll please...
the native Linux driver needed a **command line fix!**
This - needing to fix something on the command line - is the main scenario many of my Windows friends seem most uncomfortable with.
As you'll note from my previous posts in this series, needing the command line for anything on Mint is exceedingly rare. (If I recall correctly, this is the first case of the command line being required, in this particular series of installs.)
But this makes it official: command line fixes in Linux are not entirely gone.
My wife does prefer the command line, so if there had been a click-ops way to do it, she would probably find the command line solution first, anyway.
And I love that my wife shared a solution with me that I can just paste into my terminal, should I decide to print something.
She and I discussed, and we agree that I probably print something once in every three years, or so.
She also pointed out that I get away with this in part because anything I desperately need to print, she's likely to print for me before I even remember that we own a printer.
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