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Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BlueKey@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not every applications runs in Wine. For example I didn't get USB devices (not storage, connection to a special device) running in Wine. And I can imagine that old serial connections and so are even more tricky.

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  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not all applications run on Windows either:)

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wine has support serial and parallel ports. They work fine. In recent versions of wine you don’t even have to set anything up. Just run ls -l ~/.wine/dosdevices/com* after running something in wine to see what the com port number is for your device. The ttyACM and ttyUSB ports are USB serial ports. The ttyS ports are hardware serial ports and they will probably show up even if your computer doesn’t have any.

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    • morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whoa, I didn’t know about it. Maybe I can run some legacy plc programming and industrial automation software using wine.

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    • BlueKey@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh, didn't know about that. I should try the application again.

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  • TheCornCollector@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I got some weird specialised hardware over USB working via WinBoat. Might be an option for some.

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    • BlueKey@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good to know, thx.

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  • armandoenlachamba@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would old serial connections be tricker in Wine? You would think they’d be easier since Wine started being developed when those were more prevalent.

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    • BlueKey@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just a guess honestly

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Something like Winboat would be more useful for edge cases like that.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Old serial is probably easier due to it being simpler.

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• eronth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First time I tried to use WINE I got extremely confused by it, and ended up with a program that still didn’t function. Literally no idea if it was me or a program that fundamentally didn’t work with Wine.

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  • Lembot_0006@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, “wine /path/to/program.exe” command might be too confusing for some categories of users.

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So good! So good! I got you!

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