• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    11 hours ago

    Or because my fucking laser burner software dropped Linux support and it doesn’t run on wine so I have to use this damn giant piece of shit OS (or at least keep it around for dual boot)

    • muhyb@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      11 hours ago

      You might give a VM a chance by sharing your laser burner with the Windows inside the VM but from my experiences, Windows-only peripherals most of the time don’t work like that. They sometimes work.

      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        11 hours ago

        Yea I tried that, software uses a lot of low level drivers. Annoying that they used to have a Linux version but dropped it,.

        • muhyb@programming.dev
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          10 hours ago

          You might bundle the old Linux driver with its dependencies into an Appimage, unless it’s too old I guess.