cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

  • JAALU@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Peripherals…

    • A document scanner with pretty great Windows software that has features that are not nearly as easy to do with FOSS Linux software (splitting documents, auto cropping and alignment, OCR, etc)

    • A 3D printer that doesn’t have Linux software, so I can’t easily send prints to it from Linux

    • A webcam that supports device-level configuration (zoom, cropping, etc) but doesn’t have Linux software to control it

    • synestia@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Out of interest, which printer? Anycubic Kobra by any chance?

      Regarding the camera: you could probably script this with ffmpeg and let it output the cropped stream as a virtual camera but I am nog going to pretend this sounds very appealing to most people.

      Regarding scanning. Maybe you can scan to PDF and then use this: https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf . does seem to do OCR also but havent tried it myself.