Recently acquired a Lexmark printer...and they do have a driver for Ubuntu which I installed and voila... the printer works on the 32 bit version of Mint....
Now if they would supply a driver for the scanner I could use that too.
So why is it a Linux problem if some function of a product doesn't work?
I have noted that the problem is much with vendors not accommodating Linux, but you also have the problem of varying degrees of ease of configuration among different distros, and the reality that some hardware “just works” with some distros, or has drivers, while others the same hardware will not, and is difficult to find. I was able to get my Lexmark 32 to work with Linux Mint, but not with PCLOS.
Both Windows and Linux need a control center that is more comprehensive in supplying both info and configuration - in detail.
In addition, and off the subject, controlling PCs by speech command has a lot of potential. Just like you can configure keyboard shortcuts (I use AutoHotKey), so we should be able to configure voice commands to do likewise. As long as we do not think we are God!
Well simply a manufacture isn’t going to supply time (money) developing a driver for one of their products that only represents a small market share.
Some companies are better than other for supplying *nix drivers than others but let’s not forget that Windows-based machines still make up 80+% of the market. if you’re Lexmark, what platform are you going to focus on?