2020-05-14
After years of rants, Windows can still surprise me in a positive way
Microsoft Windows does fall straight into the "does not work well with others" category for me, but today Windows 10 on my work laptop managed to give me a positive surprise. I wanted to print something at home, and my home network is set up to publish CUPS printers via multicast DNS, both via IPv4 and IPv6 so Linux devices on the network see the printer right away. On selecting "Add a printer" in Windows 10 it just showed me the main home printer as an option and sending something to the printer worked the first time. I did notice the default paper size was still Letter although I have set up A4 everywhere, so that was the only thing left to adjust. Now for the screenshot I removed the printer and tried to add it again and I notice the availability isn't very consistent. I do see a lot of mdns traffic when I start adding a printer!
Microsoft Windows does fall straight into the "does not work well with others"
category for me, but today Windows 10 on my work laptop managed to give me a
positive surprise.
I wanted to print something at home, and my home network is set up to publish
CUPS printers via multicast DNS, both via IPv4 and IPv6 so Linux devices on the
network see the printer right away. On selecting "Add a printer" in Windows 10
it just showed me the main home printer as an option and sending something to
the printer worked the first time. I did notice the default paper size was
still Letter although I have set up A4 everywhere, so that was the only thing
left to adjust.
Now for the screenshot I removed the printer and tried to add it again and I
notice the availability isn't very consistent. I do see a lot of mdns traffic
when I start adding a printer!