I wouldn’t have even ‘known’ it was libsane that blocked the initial WINE installation. I know we have been playing around with it… but I’ve just been following ‘orders’ lol. The website instructions are all pretty specific and seem logical to me, so I was surprised when it didn’t ‘just’ work. Still, it is installed now and I’m able to play with my Windows Dog Agility Course Designer program so it’s all good lol.
The printers are, of course, a different issue altogether lol.
I do like how Ubuntu Mate 17.10 works overall though, from install through to general operation, it’s a very nice distro. Probably a bit more straightforward than the other distros I’ve tried… but they’ve all had their good/bad points. It will just be a matter of what distro works best overall for my system in the long run. Really looking forward to trying 18.04 LTS. But, I do plan to have more than one distro installed eventually - one main one and at least three others on my old computer that I can play with. Hopefully, I will eventually be able to get rid of Windows and its issues forever lol.
Cheers
Michael