> "I'm sorry madam, this is an operating system we don't support" On the other side, old hardware can get a new lease of life thanks to linux. I have an old s

> "I'm sorry madam, this is an operating system we don't support" On the other side, old hardware can get a new lease of life thanks to linux. I have an old scanner (>10y) still working fine 'out of the box' on linux. My brother wanted to borrow it to use it on his laptop, but the scanner is not supported anymore on recent windows. Also old low-specs computers which were running winXP at first, can still be useful with up to date linux (browsing internet, reading email, using libreoffice, printing documents, listening music, some people don't need much more).