I loaded Budgie on my wife’s older iMac because it looks and feels similar to Mac OS. I was surprised to learn that I can’t get it to work with our Epson ET-4500, which is one of the more popular printers on the market. I tried downloading all the drivers and still no joy.
I had recently converted my desktop PC from Windows to Linux Mint and both the printer and scanner functions of the ET-4500 worked right out of “box”.
Am I missing something? Is there a way to get the printer working with Budgie? I’d prefer to keep her iMac on Budgie, but I’m a noob with Linux and there’s a limit to how much time and frustration I want to expend to make it work with the printer.
ok - this does sound like a generic issue that definitely deserves a wider audience.
askubuntu.com and ubuntuforums.org should also be used to pose a question. Do ensure you say exactly what you have tried - copy paste the results of your efforts in the terminal/screenshots etc so that everyone has a better idea and maybe help if they spot an issue that you may have overlooked.
Mint is not Ubuntu - its a mistake people often make.
And no - peripherals are common through Debian/Ubuntu - its not an official specific flavour issue.
What happens is that the Mint developers sometimes makes changes/bundle stuff together that they do not share back to Debian and/or Ubuntu. This is probably one of those areas.
We have also seen the reverse situation (many many times actually) - stuff that works under Debian/Ubuntu but does not work under Mint. It is for this reason why we cannot support derivatives like Mint & Tuxedo because of the unknown changes they make.