Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.

Printers these days tend to be driverless, so that’s pretty much a solved problem.

And back at that time if you installed any flavor of Linux you were lucky if the OS install didn’t fuck itself over

I was using Linux religiously back then, and this is false. As long as there’s a driver for all of your hardware, it generally worked fine.

But that “as long as” is doing some heavy lifting. The usual suspects were pretty much the same as now: Broadcom, NeoMagic, and NVIDIA. Some cheap printers and modems were problematic as well, but if you paid for good hardware, it would probably work.

The wireless kind, presumably. Those always need their own firmware and therefore their own driver.

Since when did Bethesda have QA?

If you can’t afford Starfield, how can you afford a computer capable of running it?

I take it you don’t already have a desktop you can use?

Why not use a full-size computer for all that stuff?

In America, the disobedient prole gets tossed in the slammer and forced to do hard labor.