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I just use Wine and feel good. Feel good!
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.
Not all applications run on Windows either:)
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.Whoa, I didn't know about it. Maybe I can run some legacy plc programming and industrial automation software using wine.
Huh, didn't know about that. I should try the application again.
I got some weird specialised hardware over USB working via WinBoat. Might be an option for some.
Good to know, thx.
Why would old serial connections be trickier in Wine? You would think they'd be easier since Wine started being developed when those were more prevalent.
Just a guess honestly
Old serial is probably easier due to it being simpler.
Something like Winboat would be more useful for edge cases like that.
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.
Yes, "wine /path/to/program.exe" command might be too confusing for some categories of users.
So good! So good! I got you!