It just occurred to me after posting to this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8826&p=54336#p54336
That what I should have asked is what peripheral hardware do "the boys from the back room" at Mageia Central use for their printing and scanning needs?
And then I realised: "These are engineers; they probably use whatever the hell they want."
So here is my question:
I gave someone in their 80's an old computer I don't recall the make of, who has a laptop with XP on it that for some reason has slowed to a crawl and won't update AVG. I recently put Mageia 4.1 on the old box I gave him and he is delighted. I know the scanner/printer is an HP something or other, probably as old as the laptop but I don't know what variety it is.
So what scanner should I be looking for as a general purpose machine for them?
If that isn't a straight-forwards question, I am sorry I can't do better until I go around to his house next week. Surely there must be a consensus of what works and what doesn't. Looking through the threads I could see to steer clear of anything with the word Epson on it. Any refinements to that would be an help. In fact I have a suggestion:
Is there any way I can call up a list of what hardware to get when I get a download of Mageia next time?