I wouldn’t say it’s better in terms of features or polish. In that regard it still has quite a ways to go. However it is certainly better in terms of freeing yourself from Google and being in control of your own photo library. I’ve been using it since late last year and for my needs it’s honestly been great!
I dicked around with the VM route for a while and could never really get it working 100% to my liking. There was always a trade-off. I ended up just getting a second PC and tucking it in a cabinet out of sight. When I need Windows I just use remote desktop to connect to it.
I believe they created it before tap really took off in the US so scan was a better option for them at the time.
It’s scan to pay at Walmart because they gave their own payment system called “Walmart pay” and it sucks.
Do your friend a favor and install Windows back on his laptop for him.
Runs Debian Bookworm
Hosting:
Probably some more stuff I’m forgetting. It’s basically my everything box.