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.

Like pre-usb ancient or what?

If it’s obvious, why state it?

Naw man. This is a linux enthusiast sub. It’s just how they are. Kinda fun to wind them up, though. XD

You get ads in windows? I thought linux users were supposed to be savy. That’s just sad, man.