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Hey guys,

I recently bought some "RØDE Wireless Pro"-microphones for better audio-quality and it seems, that their software "RØDE Central" (which is needed for some stuff) is only available for Windows.

For now, I helped myself with creating a virtual machine (running Windows 10) which works good, but I think, that this solution is unacceptable for a device which costs ~300€.

My fault to not check it before, but unfortunately it's too late for a return. I have hopes, that some skilled linux-gods found a practical solution for this. Using Debian btw.

~sp3ctre

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[–] Spider89@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This will sound stupid (I imagine you have already tried it)..

Does running it under wine work?

[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Last time I tried, I had no luck unfortunately...

Would love to hear if (and how) anyone actually made it work properly under wine!

[–] Spider89@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

you can use WinBoat to make it feel native and natural. besides that, there really isn't much to do..

Good luck!

[–] sp3ctre@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, I will try it!

Hopefully Linux gets relevant enough, so that even the last company feels the need to provide a proper linux installer.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

WinBoat is just a Windows VM. So it will work but you won't be able to connect it to anything that's not also in that VM. Might as well just dual boot Windows.