Linux hardware support, though imperfect, is much better than it used to be. Most printer manufacturers are supporting linux these days. I have experience with HP, Brother and Samsung and they're excellent, easier and less cluttered than Windows. Lasers? Probably not though only because manufacturers don't write drivers. I wouldn't be surprised if I could run XP or Win7 as a guest in a virtual machine without internet access for many years to come though after Microsoft drops support. The likelihood of picking up malware on an 'airgapped' machine seems pretty slim. If something does happen to a VM, restore a snapshot or nuke & restore the entire thing. Takes about 15 minutes on my setup.