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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 I once had to ditch a perfectly functioning scanner (HP), due to out-of-date drivers and no linux support.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 a
by rroot 4y ago
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I once had to ditch a perfectly functioning scanner (HP), due to out-of-date drivers and no linux support.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 http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html
- jherskovic 4y agoI 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30760850 [1] https://www.hamrick.com/ https://www.hamrick.com/
- Maultasche 4y agoYep, my old Brother Printer/Scanner is no longer supported on modern versions of MacOS, but VueScan works great with it.
- jandrese 4y agoMy 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.