I use a Verbatim DPAA to access old DVD’s. Cheap and simple, works just fine with both Windows and Linux and didn’t even have to install any drivers on either.
Connector is USB-B mini (disk drive) to USB-A (computer).
Sadly doesn’t support blu-ray.
Why should it be enough? We already have multiple Linux communities across different instances, decentralized and with alternative modteams, should we just merge them all into one conglamorate community with a single point of failure?