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I just got into astrophotography and Wine has been a blessing to have. There are a lot of tools that are wintel only and being able to just run them without go

by jcims 5y ago

I just got into astrophotography and Wine has been a blessing to have. There are a lot of tools that are wintel only and being able to just run them without going through the hassle of building a vm has been fantastic.

heavyset_go 5y ago
Do the apps you run talk to hardware at all? I haven't run into a case where I've needed to run Windows apps to communicate with hardware, so I'm interested in whether that's something Wine has already tackled well.
- jcims 5y ago
  Yes, almost exclusively low speed serial comms (ASCOM to the mount) and it generally has been flawless. The only lesson learned is that there is a wine config file that maps serial ports out of the box and I had to nuke that config to pick up my serial port (it was on /dev/ttyUSB0 vs/dev/ttySx)