This sounds interesting. What the hell is RevOS? What kind of label maker is that? Does it have a name?
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20hzservers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My job in the a non technical field relies on a laptop to run a label printer, the laptop is ancient and I already had to install revOS on it so that printing labels isn’t horribly bogged down waiting on the laptop to load the simple printer program. Is there anyway that proton would be able to run that program? Probably not because of all lack of driver support, if anyone has any ideas I’m all ear, even just pointing me in a direction would be appreciated!
Agility0971@lemmy.world 1 month ago
20hzservers@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah it’s brand name is kiaro it just uses a usb to connect to the laptop, and revOS is basically just a custom windows install that has as much of the bloatware removed as possible as well as some UI mods to make it feel more like old school windows a little bit. The laptop is from like pre 2010 so Microsoft is slowly killing it’s performance with all the bloatware crap. Kinda ridiculous that they don’t take older hardware performance very seriously on windows the thing is just trying to run simple GUI printer software and it was struggling hard before revOS.
Agility0971@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is what I think one need to do to test if that would work
- get latest ubuntu live cd
- install bottles
- run label printer installer for windows in bottles
- check if the program runs at all
If the device is a COM device in windows then I think it should just work out of the box. If not, then the entire device needs to be forwarded using udev rules to wine. Let me know if you want to attempt this :)
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Proton is really a WINE fork intended specifically for Steam games. Most of the changes in it target games.
WINE might be able to run the program, would be what I’d try.
Or you might be able to run a Windows VM on newer hardware and run it on that, would be my fallback attempt. Less seamless than just having a Windows program open a window alongside Linux ones, but sometimes that can work if WINE can’t do it.
I’d see if Linux can recognize the label printer, if this is really ancient hardware. That’d be my first step. Then look into having apps print to said printer.
20hzservers@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shit lol, I meant wine, I personally use proton for steam so it’s stuck in my brain first.