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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

On that Windows 95 anecdote, by the way, beyond gaming that's also one of the advantages of wine. Pretty sure their software would run perfectly on Linux with wine.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not usually. The main thing for lab equipment is that it is controlling hardware. So you are often using proprietary drivers for custom hardware. Wine can't handle drivers and for security reasons can't get low level hardware access.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Ah yeah, drivers are another thing entirely. Especially for what I imagine is very proprietary undocumented hardware. The only thing that can help there is a reverse engineer / kernel module dev.

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