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by hyperstar 1698 days ago
I recently bought a Wacom tablet, but didn't install any drivers except those that are in the free-software repository of Void Linux, which I suppose don't do this. I wish it were easier in general, though, to find out whether hardware requires proprietary software to function. For example, I'd like to get a document scanner, but, since I don't know of any model that can run on free software, I just do without.
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I have MF645C (combined laser printer and scanner) from Cannon and it works perfectly fine (over network) from my Fedora systems without the need to install any proprietary drivers & using the auto discovery system over network.

Other printers and scanners from Cannon might work good as well.