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minus-squarebeautiful_boater [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoNot 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.
minus-squarebeautiful_boater [he/him, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoOn the other hand, something like ReactOS could, in theory, work if it was much more mature and had more developers behind it.
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.
On the other hand, something like ReactOS could, in theory, work if it was much more mature and had more developers behind it.