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[–] cruseo@piefed.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I spent several years writing printer drivers

Yeah, just like the rest of us. Lol.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I highly recommend it

[–] cruseo@piefed.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I’m currently dipping my toes into writing gnome extensions, so I’m no stranger to tormenting myself needlessly, lol

But writing printer drivers? That’s just creating your own hell.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No way. My drivers just worked. Graceful error handling, full resume functionality, hand-crafted color profiles.

It helps when you have full control over the OS framework as well.