I’m looking into scanners for my art and since I’m running an Arch distro do I have to buy certain brands of scanners that work on Arch or Arch based distros or do I just have to buy one and run SANE on it?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SANE/Scanner-specific_problems
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Are any of the scanners on your list Brother by chance? I've had a plug-and-play experience with my scanner on garuda. Brother also has pretty decent linux support.
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If you buy a scanner that is a few years old, there is a good chance you can use it with Linux. A lot of times it is as simple as installing a package for driver support and you are good to go.
Find a scanner you like, and before you buy it do a web search for "XYZ scanner Linux" or "XYZ scanner Linux drivers" and see what comes up. If it seems like people are getting it working, go for it.
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I’ve heard of Brother but I was looking into the Fujifilm scanners, but I might look at some of the Brother ones
epson scanners work well their are drivers in AUR for them you just need the correct one.
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