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I'm still mostly using Windows on my main PC. I've got a few jobs to finish before I switch, but the main one is scanning old photos from the 80s and 90s. I've tried lots of different scanning software on Linux, but I can't find anything that works as well as the Epson software that was bundled with the scanner.
It's got a few one click fixes for bad exposures that work really well too, so things like that orangey reddish cast that some photos have is fixed almost automatically. It can all be done easily in other software, but the time saved by doing it in the scanner software is massive.