As mentioned by another commenter, Brother sells out of the box working on Linux printers.

That was a pretty long article very storytelling focussed.

My takeway is automerge exists and maybe that collaborative text tool, upwelling, will be ready some day.

Maybe they're ways to target the "end user" instead of spawning more tools for devs.

Yeah, only their "professional" lines are ok.

Also, to be fair, HP has download link to windows drivers only but they heavily push the windows crapware suite download links on their site.