PG has helped immensely through education, recommendations and members responses.
Moved from Windows to Silverblue and most recently to Secureblue. The move was easy, especially with the support of Secureblue’s website, FAQ’s and support currently on Discord.
Everything is up and running, including a Windows app needed for finance (using Wine).
Even configured a unique Canon MF743Cdw print driver.
Just wanted to extend my thanks.
This Printer is currently blushing hard[1]
sorry for not taking the time to actually photo edit it with some uwu ↩︎
I recently switched to Secureblue as my daily driver after migrating through like 10+ distros in the past several years. It’s a truly incredible distro. Cannot say enough about it.
I honestly feel like PG should consider switching their recommendations to more highly recommend it. I initially was annoyed at the opinionated design that highly prefers Flatpak apps, but I now am of the opinion that it’s worth switching services to use one that publishes a verified Flatpak. I know that would require a complete overhaul of the recs on the site because a lot of the recommended services don’t have Flatpak (or even Linux packages at all), but it has been a really worthwhile shift for me. I think atomic distros are finally ready (this was not my opinion when I tried Kinoite about 18 months ago).
It is a beast of a printer and we really gets our money’s worth out of it. Needed to be sure it would work in the Linux environment. Special thanks to Amaranth on Discord for figuring out how to correct the Canon driver!
Linux supports printers quite well out of the box.
Depending on how far you need to go + how “bleeding edge” it is but CUPS is overall always a safe bet. 
I had something similar, threw it out in the trash because the ink was just awful to manage and it is soooo heavy + takes so much space.
TLDR: I hate printers.
PG does has a Discord or it’s unrelated?
Ooooh, SecureBlue’s Discord. 
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Many people have been unsuccessful with this Canon model to work on Linux. I decided to keep trying and luckily Amaranth took a look. Turns out Canon had placed two lines in the printer driver that ended up being the problem. Removed those and the install worked. (all thanks to Amaranth that is)
As far as Amaranth on Discord: I was on PG and Amaranth recommended we take the “secureblue” conversation over to Discord. I just wanted to highlight the appreciation.
You might want to take a look at laser printers. Seriously, you just chuck in a toner and it lasts a looong time (well, depending on how often you print) without going bad.
That’s what I had. Died some day because idk, it’s a printer? 
I’ll probably get a thermal printer next time, if anything.
Also self-disappears so added privacy haha. I know it’s forbidden for official documents etc 
What brand was it? Brother laser printers tend to last quite a long time without breaking.
I was also thinking about acquiring a thermal printer, it is a very cool concept.
However, for my threat model, laser seems to be good enough.
I often just share documents digitally, anyways.
exactly that one, maybe I was just unlucky?
Most likely 
Hm, I have to say Secureblue kind of flew under the radar for me. But then, I’m not too keen on immutable distros, without any good reason. I tried Bluefin but wasn’t too keen on it. I think I’m a bit too reliant on package managers and the “classic” way of managing software. I’m kind of allergic to Flatpaks because of how so many of them ship with insane volume of dependencies that take up absurd amounts of storage.
Currently on openSUSE Tumbleweed, and I like their org a lot. One of the reasons I switched is that it’s (mostly) European. They also have immutable offerings, but nothing hardened like Secureblue.
Honestly for someone who wants a Linux that “just works” balanced with highly secure defaults, it’s great. It’s really amazing to know a reboot that borks a system has an easy recovery process (unlike the latest Windows releases..). There are some oddities to learn, but for a tech savvy user it’s not a big deal.
