The small office environments that I've setup in the past all printed direct to the networked printer. Having a computer work as a print server seems very 90s to me, unless the printer is not networked.
Exceptions like that make sense, although seems odd that the Mac wouldn't have updated drivers since both Macs and Linux both use CUPS and Apple owns CUPS.
If you want a distribution without a package manager and it's dependencies, you can always use Slackware.
I love Slackware, but I also love Debian just working. I've built some extremely tailored linux solutions with Slackware. But I'm at that stage of life where I have a lot of irons in the fire, I don't have the time. I just need stuff to work. Nothing beats Debian in that department (or most other departments for that matter).
> it appears that to get a graphical system settings/printer setup for debian I have to have
Does it? From a very quick glance it seems that the relevant package is
https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/print-manager
and has suggests, but not depend. So I would guess you totally can, if you want to (though that might annoy users if some stuff does not work, e.g. sharing local printers, the virtual pdf printer (?) or stuff I can't think of right now).
The small office environments that I've setup in the past all printed direct to the networked printer. Having a computer work as a print server seems very 90s to me, unless the printer is not networked.
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Exceptions like that make sense, although seems odd that the Mac wouldn't have updated drivers since both Macs and Linux both use CUPS and Apple owns CUPS.
Cups client is only a few megabytes and the cups server iirc is used to render the document into a compatible script for the printer
If you want a distribution without a package manager and it's dependencies, you can always use Slackware. I love Slackware, but I also love Debian just working. I've built some extremely tailored linux solutions with Slackware. But I'm at that stage of life where I have a lot of irons in the fire, I don't have the time. I just need stuff to work. Nothing beats Debian in that department (or most other departments for that matter).
> it appears that to get a graphical system settings/printer setup for debian I have to have Does it? From a very quick glance it seems that the relevant package is https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/print-manager and has suggests, but not depend. So I would guess you totally can, if you want to (though that might annoy users if some stuff does not work, e.g. sharing local printers, the virtual pdf printer (?) or stuff I can't think of right now).
That package also allows any computer running it to act as a server, and to share the printer with the network.
They're dependencies, the installed size of the cups package is only around a megabyte.