Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu

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echelon_musk•about 1 hour ago

The product name is mildly amusing. After 39 iterations and 2 revisions, I wonder if every previous version bore the Perfect moniker.

forinti•about 3 hours ago

My mom recently asked me to print something on her old HP printer from her laptop with Windows.

I was having a hard time (the laptop runs very slowly although it is an i5 with 16GB of RAM) so I installed hplip on my laptop and printed it from there.

I had to smile at how easy things have become in Linux that Windows got me frustrated and Linux solved the issue so quickly.

xorcist•about 3 hours ago

Just download a third party binary? That is the Windows experience. It may work today, but who knows in a few years.

If you buy hardware for personal use, buy what has upstream support instead. If it works out of the box in a Linux desktop today, it will work in ten years time just the same.

noisy_boy•about 4 hours ago

I use the same scanner. I think it worked out of the box on Fedora 43.

taspeotis•about 5 hours ago

I wish all blog posts and news articles were this pithy

rrgok•about 4 hours ago

Me too. Every time I click on a medium link, 5 seconds in and I already closed the tab.

We don't need a thesis. Just get to the damn point.

stavros•about 3 hours ago

This isn't so much of a blog post, though. For this format, I like keeping a notes site (mine is at https://notes.stavros.io/), where I publish small tips and things I want to remember, and figure someone else might need at some point.

I use Joplin with a small script I wrote.

Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu

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