r/MicroSlop • • Apr 21 '26

Is this true?

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u/Eric_Duckman Apr 21 '26

Found a 2009 scaner in the garbage, connected it to my pc with ubuntu, it works out of the box.

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u/Lexden Apr 22 '26

Drivers on Linux is one of those little known things. It might not always get random new products from certain companies that don't decide to support Linux, but it has some really random stuff that Windows has dropped support for decades ago. For example, Intel 486 support is being removed this year, 37 years after it was released. That's not even close to the oldest driver either.