diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-hard.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-hard.yaml
index 54db1e064..977807d3c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-hard.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check-hard.yaml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
+          install-quarto: false
           pak-version: devel
           dependencies: '"hard"'
           cache: false
diff --git a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
index 110d148cb..f0848b43b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/R-CMD-check.yaml
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-r-dependencies@v2
         with:
+          install-quarto: false
           extra-packages: |
             any::rcmdcheck
           needs: check
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 140ee54ea..68ef13f8d 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 * `make_linter_from_xpath()` errors up front when `lint_message` is missing (instead of delaying this error until the linter is used, #2541, @MichaelChirico).
 * `paste_linter()` is extended to recommend using `paste()` instead of `paste0()` for simply aggregating a character vector with `collapse=`, i.e., when `sep=` is irrelevant (#1108, @MichaelChirico).
 * `expect_no_lint()` was added as new function to cover the typical use case of expecting no lint message, akin to the recent {testthat} functions like `expect_no_warning()` (#2580, @F-Noelle).
+* `lint()` and friends emit a message if no lints are found (#2643, @IndrajeetPatil).
 
 ### New linters
 
diff --git a/R/methods.R b/R/methods.R
index 29a974d48..869c17ef1 100644
--- a/R/methods.R
+++ b/R/methods.R
@@ -101,10 +101,14 @@ print.lints <- function(x, ...) {
     if (isTRUE(settings$error_on_lint)) {
       quit("no", 31L, FALSE) # nocov
     }
-  } else if (use_rstudio_source_markers) {
-    # Empty lints: clear RStudio source markers
-    rstudio_source_markers(x)
+  } else {
+    # Empty lints
+    cli_inform(c(i = "No lints found."))
+    if (use_rstudio_source_markers) {
+      rstudio_source_markers(x) # clear RStudio source markers
+    }
   }
+
   invisible(x)
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-methods.R b/tests/testthat/test-methods.R
index 172b9692d..b337169f1 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-methods.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-methods.R
@@ -96,6 +96,13 @@ test_that("print.lint works", {
   expect_output(print(l), "  1:length(x)", fixed = TRUE)
 })
 
+test_that("print.lint works with empty lints", {
+  withr::local_options(list(lintr.rstudio_source_markers = FALSE))
+  l <- lint(text = "1L")
+
+  expect_message(print(l), "No lints found", fixed = TRUE)
+})
+
 test_that("print.lint works for inline data, even in RStudio", {
   l <- lint("x = 1\n")