Open Source Controller with internal THC

thefabricator03 wrote: But when I can load just about any hardware configuration, graphics cards, printers, just about anything I plug in I can get running in a couple of minutes with a driver update, I see what "normal" people are talking about.

But Linux Mint also does this. It has taken any hardware I have added in its stride. Even my very windows-centric laptop builtin devices.

thefabricator03 wrote: Dont get me wrong, Linux is great! But its not a be all and end all.

Absolutely, The choice of OS is driven by the application. My first OS of choice is Chrome OS because almost everything I do is cloud based.
But for CAD and Photo processing, my preferred applications have to run on Windows or Macintosh but I do use cloud based environments for both so I can work from anywhere. I chose Windows over Mac.

I am sure Linux is getting better at adding hardware, I have herd stories of people not being able to get printers working correctly, but I have not had an issue.

I remember reading an article a while ago about the backwards comparability of windows. Its pretty mind blowing what can still be run on modern windows.

thefabricator03 wrote: I am sure Linux is getting better at adding hardware, I have herd stories of people not being able to get printers working correctly, but I have not had an issue.

There is no excuse not to use networked printers in this day and age. In fact, I've used network printers exclusively for the last 15-20 years. Every network printer I've seen for the last 10 years or more are postscript capable, even the cheapest Brothers. You just need the PPD file to install them in Linux. Simple as. Recently, I installed a Raspberry PI4 on my network and it auto found and installed the printer driver for my Kyocera MFD without me doing a thing. I will say I will use Kyocera output devices exclusively moving forward. They are not much dearer than the Brother cheapies you get at Officeworks and are corporate grade quality. (After a Brother network interface died totally as I was using it one day!)

thefabricator03 wrote: I remember reading an article a while ago about the backwards comparability of windows. Its pretty mind blowing what can still be run on modern windows.

Windows 10 obsoleted a $5,000 document scanner for me so I think you read lies. Thats certainly not been my experience....

rodw wrote: Windows 10 obsoleted a $5,000 document scanner for me so I think you read lies. Thats certainly not been my experience....

That is interesting, Was there no way to make the driver for the scanner run in backwards comparability mode?

thefabricator03 wrote:

rodw wrote: Windows 10 obsoleted a $5,000 document scanner for me so I think you read lies. Thats certainly not been my experience....

That is interesting, Was there no way to make the driver for the scanner run in backwards comparability mode?

Too long ago to worry now but what annoyed me was after the free upgrade to win 10, what was not clear is you had 30 days to roll back to the old version (Win but it was well after 30 days before I found out there was a roll back option so it was too late then..

Technically Windows 10 didn't obsolete your scanner. The scanner's manufacturer did by not supplying new drivers compatible with Windows 10. MS takes no responsibility for maintaining drivers for any hardware. That is entirely on the hardware manufacturer to supply current drivers for their hardware.

Once you found out the problem, why didn't you simply reinstall the old version of Windows from the original install media or OEM backup partition? That will still work. Only the "role back" option expired, and half the time that doesn't work anyway, and you end up reinstalling the original anyhow.