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Small rant, although on topic.

I once had to ditch a perfectly functioning scanner (HP), due to out-of-date drivers and no linux support. I now do my best to always buy hardware that I know is well supported on Linux.

For example, some CanoScan scanners are completely supported by Sane, see http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html



I bought a VueScan[1] license because of this. Awesome piece of software. There's a 5-month-old thread on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760850

[1] https://www.hamrick.com/


Yep, my old Brother Printer/Scanner is no longer supported on modern versions of MacOS, but VueScan works great with it.


My old CanoScan is only supported by Linux now. The last set of drivers they released were for Windows 7 32-bit only. The Mac drivers also stop at a similar vintage and are not forward compatible. Sane is the only remaining option.




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