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    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 74 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Such an up and down though. I have an ancient epson scanner that cannot be used on modern windows, but I just installed the driver on linux and everything has been amazing.

    [–] JPJones@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Like pre-usb ancient or what?

    [–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Not quite that old, it is connectet via USB-B. Windows drivers only exist for 32 Bit systems, on linux the drrivers come in a deb package that works on modern installations.

    [–] JPJones@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

    Makes even less sense. 20 year old usb Epson flatbed scanner here that plugs into any win10/11 system and works without any fiddling, and that's generally consistent with any usb hardware on Windows. I'm not saying linux isn't a good solution to get problematic old hardware working, but let's be real here.

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