| From: Juan R. de Silva <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> | Yes, you need to use Brother's drivers for it. | But what's the problem with it, if they are always available and easy to | install? 1. At some point, Brother will stop supporting the printer. The printer may still be otherwise useful. I've had that happen with a bunch of devices. Usually it is Windows support that is dropped; the community-created Linux drivers continue working. But AMD and nVidia drop support from their Linux drivers. (My first laser printer lasted for a dozen years or more.) 2. Bugs leave us helpless. There have been Brother bugs. Scanner problems sometimes remain mysterious. 3. Open source drivers have the potential of being better than proprietary ones. 4. With a network printer, you want all your computers to have drivers. In our household, that's a lot of installation compared with "let the distro do the work". And it gets repeated with every update of the drivers and every version of the distro. We've had a number of Brother lasers that did not need proprietary drivers. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
