Haven’t got as far as checking the scanner part as yet :-). While that
aspect would be ‘nice’, it simply isn’t anywhere near as important as
having a printer that works lol. I must admit that I’ve had a few minor
glitches with 18.04 but nothing that is annoying enough to worry about.
I just want a system that is stable and does the basics nicely. 16.04.4
was reasonable, 17.10.1 was better, but 18.04 has so far been the best.
Still want to try Mint when Tara comes out and maybe also Peppermint,
Linux Lite and MX-17. I have tried MX-17 before and it was very good but
maybe a bit above the level for a newbie like me. I built a brand new
computer from scratch ‘just’ to migrate from Windows to Linux but
clearly I made some mistakes in component selection along the way. I’ve
‘suffered’ (lol) for 6 months now waiting on distros to get kernels over
4.12 to make my Ryzen CPU more workable, and the NVIDIA GPU continues to
cause issues - hardware is just so important in Linux and even though I
did a fair bit of research, I found it difficult to get any
comprehensive component information. And then I found out that Brother
‘only’ supply solutions for Deb and RPM based distros lol! It’s been
quite a journey lol and I’m sure it’s nowhere near over!
Cheers
Michael