They work better in Linux than Windows, not to mention backwards compatibility.

EDIT: I may be wrong about newest printer models, 2020 and above.

EDIT2: Hardware problems are an entirely different issue.

  • aard@kyu.de
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    11 months ago

    CUPS is horrible, and also had its share of critical vulnerabilities. It is just better than the LPD mess we had before.

    It is not a Linux specific thing - it was developed when there still were a lot of UNIX variants around. Apple was a very early contributor, and had quite a bit of influence in making it successful.