i am running an old Hp laptop, Hp Pavilion 15-000 series, the manufacturer only has drivers for windows , i want to permanently switch to Linux, if my printer or devices not work with Linux, what do I do then?
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Everything should work just fine out of the box. You don’t need drivers from the HP website.
What printer do you have?
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HP have good support for printers on Linux. There’s a dedicated app that comes with Manjaro out of the box.
If you are not sure, just install Manjaro in a virtual machine and run the tests you need before install it.
Hope helps
Regards.
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On top of what people said above, the answer is obvious:
Become a kernel developer!
You could test this. Use a Live Linux via USB or CD. 
And if you search with gOOgle, you may find a database or 2 which tell what printers are supported in linux (out of the box) 
There are even commercial drivers available for some printers in linux.
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