If you don't mind used, I had great luck with my Samsung L2020w, cat got some celophane stuck in it and it died (for good)

Replaced it with a Brother HL-series because they're what I used at work.

The lil guys are beasts.

I'd normally not wanna go with the "big corpo option" but for a printer without HP shenanigans its really great.

If you set up with the apps it will try to get you to subscribe to an ink subscription, this is not required.

I bought a WiFi Brother printer 3 years ago and had a terrible time with Fedora Linux after Google discontinued Google Print services. I eventually gave up and would ask my partner to print from her Windows machine.

We now have a WiFi Canon laser printer and I'm printing from phone, Fedora, and USB memory stick with no issues. Never even installed drivers for anything.

I have an Epson EcoTank ET-4850 and it works really well. And even though that's not under $200, cheaper ink might make up for it.

Regardless of the model, what you want is a printer that supports CUPS driverless LAN/WiFi printing and the Apple AirScan protocol for scanning (which the model above supports both). If configured right, CUPS will just detect your printer and it will just work, no installing drivers, no choosing models etc., same with SANE for your scanner, without defining backends.

USB-devices are always a gamble where even minor model-number differences might entirely break support. Better make sure to check on the compatibility list and scour the mailing lists and forums for some crumb of information that your specific and exact printer model is supported and someone verifies it's working. Ideally test before buying, or not rely on USB.

Anything but inkjets, unless you are keen on printing photos. The amount of time I've saved on maintenance since I switched to a laser printer is astounding. Currently using an old Brother MFP I bought for $30 at the local thrift store, then $30 for a two-pack of third-party toner on eBay.

As for wireless printing, I set up an old thin client as a discrete print server.

I've run my business for over 25 years, and I haven't had a printer in over two decades. I have needed to print something less than half a dozen times since making the decision to not replace it. Instead I print to PDF and if I need actual physical paper, I've put a PDF on a USB flash drive and taken it to my local office supplies store to print on demand.

I have a scanner, it's been used perhaps a dozen times in the same period.

In other words, have you considered not buying a printer?

I use Brother HLL2350DW Monochrome Compact Laser Printer with Wireless and Duplex Printing. I was pretty nervous about getting a monochrome printer because I thought "what if I need color!", but I haven't needed color once.

I'm on Arch btw (aspiring Guix user) and I have to use this printer driver to get the printer working: aur.archlinux.org/packages/bro…

It can connect to wifi and supposedly supports driverless printing... but I haven't been able to get that to work. (I haven't dug too deeply.)

I don't mind installing the driver and connecting my laptop to the printer with a USB cable. The rest of the printing experience is great! I bought this thing over 2 years ago and it's still works like new. Zero maintenance, zero toner "ink" replacements, the printed pages are crisp.

I recently bought my parents HLL3280CDW Color Printer with Laser Quality Output, Duplex and Mobile Printing & Ethernet. Everyone says laser printers suck at printing in color, so I wanted to try one out... and people online are way overexaggerating how bad the color printing quality is. It's actually pretty damn good. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between an inkjet and laser color printer. Maybe if they were right next to each other and I was looking for differences, but for most people and most use cases, I don't think anyone will notice. (Unless you need to print photos? idk.)

I'd say the biggest drawback these Brother laser printers have might be the size. My monochrome printer is not the smallest. And the color scanner/printer/copier printer I got my parents is pretty big. Ink cartridges are tiny compared to the huge toner rolls these printers use. I think the size bothers my parents a little, but I keep telling them to remember the shitty ink cartridges drying out all the time and needing constant maintenance.

I got the Epson ET-2815 (non-cartridge, tank-based inkjet). Works pretty well with Linux (they have drivers available, but not officially supported). Had to set it up on WiFi via app (which was an annoying process) first though, but I could have just wired it up and then I wouldn't need that. Maybe it is possible to somehow set it up on WiFi some other way after you have connected directly?

Got tripped up once because I could not connect to it via the utility software (while printing still worked). Turned iut that was due to me being connected to VPN, and for some reason the request went through that (which I think is a little suspect...), so it couldn't find it. So I have to disconnect VPN to do that. You will not have access to this heavy self-cleaning program on Linux, but you should probably avoid it anyway because it wastes a lot of ink and deposits in this sponge you then would need to buy and replace every now and then.

Biggest issue I had was that it stopped printing some.colors after a while. Had to do a manual cleaning by opening it, removing these dummy cartridges and connecting rubber tubings to the nozzles and pump isopropyl alcohol through. Was a lot of research and took some time to get working again. Think maybe my humidifier was the issue, as it tends to deposit some white powder around my home that I think caused a clog. We'll see this winter as I fire it up again.

EDIT: Printed a fair amount and the tanks lasts a long time. If you go inkjet, then this is the economical choice. More expensive upfront, but much cheaper in operations. But you still have the drying issue wich could cause you to have to do what I described above. Or print regularly at least. If you don't need color, laser is probably your best bet.

Is it still relying on Halium?

Edit: It seems it does use Halium

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I think I'll keep looking into importing a Jolla C2.

There are a bunch of great build suggestions on the homepage of PCPartPicker. Really the only consideration if you want to use Linux is to go with AMD for your GPU (they're usually a better value anyway).

I wouldn't recommend any prebuilts, they're usually not a good value. Plus you can learn a lot about computers if you DIY and it can be helpful to diagnose in the future.

If you choose a case without a transparent side panel and ignore RGB and glamorous components, you can get better performance.

I'm a fight simmer, and have used Flight gear. The main top options now are MS flight simulator, with incredible vusuals, and Laminar's Xplane, better flight model, so good in fact, that Laminar has a version which is FAA approved for simulator hours for pilots certification, and still great graphics. Both are way, way better than Flight gear (which is truly amazing for a FOSS flight Sim.)

If flight Sims are key to your decision making, I would pay for X Plane, a pay once model, that runs natively in Linux, Windows, and Mac, then spec around that. Next decision for me would be the GPU. In Linux most people seem to recommend AMD. I haven't delved into the issue, since I've had AMD for a while.

My usual decision process is:

1- analyze needs (programs and stuff that are important).

2- budget.

3- decide general specs.

4- get the best power supply I can afford within budget, gold, active PFC, modular, etc. Spec for at least 20% more wattage than maximum projected consumption Do a bit of research, googling etc. Be wary of ranked lists from established publications, as they are often influenced by manufacturers. So many people don't understand that the PS is the single most important component to ensure that everything else works correctly. Forum/reddit threads are better.

5- a good case. Fractal is my current go to.

6- GPU

7- processor.

8- board, Ram, memory, SSD, cooling

9- yoke, joystick (hotas), and pedals.
10 - everything else.

What does "ssd" mean in this context? I'm guessing it's not solid state drive since that doesn't make any sense in these sentences, but searching that acronym isn't very helpful.

Edit: I guess it means "server side decorations". I see that OP did use the full phrase once, but it didn't click with me initially.
Wikipedia says that means the window manager draws titlebar buttons, as opposed to client side decorations which enables the app developer to control the titlebar of their app.

Oops, shouldve probably explained it in the post.

ssd= server side decorations

server side decorations is when the system draws the titlebar, as opposed to client side decorations (csd) where the applications draws it.

for example, gnome uses csd, but kde uses ssd.

There's debate over which is better, but the main difference is that csd allows applications to put anything in the titlebar, which can make the design nicer, and ssd allows the titlebars on all apps to be consistent, which I personally value more.

Party of me is curious about how the hexbear folk ready to all this. Seeing they were both enthousiastic about Trump and trans rights.

I'm not curious enough to remove them from my ban list and actually wade into the swamp, though.

Great choice of distro!

Troublefree for almost 2 years now on Tumbleweed.

If you're still on the fence about switching to Linux, try downloading a Live Linux USB image and booting it from a USB stick. This lets you try out Linux without changing anything on your Windows drive. The Live version will also let you see if Linux detects all your computer's hardware before you install it for real.

I recommend Linux Mint for beginners.

Welcome to the club! I installed Open Sousa Tumbleweed this summer.

(It's similar to OpenSUSE, but has a marching band theme by default. This is totally a real thing, and it wasn't just a speech to text failure.)