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Re: Driver Station through WINE

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Originally Posted by MrRoboSteve View Post
You'll have the most support (troubleshooting help) at competition events for Windows running directly on the hardware. Other configurations like those being discussed on this thread might work fine in your shop but have trouble on the field.

Teams get very frustrated when they arrive at the field and have to be bypassed for the match because their driver station won't connect.
This is sometimes the case, however I will say most fields have an emergency Classmates on hand in the event this happens, they can switch out the computers so you can still drive for a match (dashboards may not work).

Wine is a unique way to run, I would be worried about the performance and a larger control lag in a competition environment.

If it works, it works. If it doesn't, you don't have a normal installation and not much support is available. This has been attempted in the past but since it isn't widespread I'm not sure if it has worked out so well.