I just picked up another FireWire card and built a new capture and AI upscaling rig to reprocess the Hi-8s I transferred on a Digital8 a while back (2011ish).
All Linux workflow, of course, so I know I won't have any problems with compatibility with the formats or hardware.
Unlike both Mac and Windows where I've had to either join private trackers or scour archive.org and ebay to try to gather all the odds and ends to recreate a functional environment - and still occasionally failed, like with the captures from a mid-2000s security cam NVR - getting back up and running is as easy as executing a single shell script on Debian.
All Linux workflow, of course, so I know I won't have any problems with compatibility with the formats or hardware.
Unlike both Mac and Windows where I've had to either join private trackers or scour archive.org and ebay to try to gather all the odds and ends to recreate a functional environment - and still occasionally failed, like with the captures from a mid-2000s security cam NVR - getting back up and running is as easy as executing a single shell script on Debian.