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Is there a stable way to run linux drivers on windows?

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Is there a stable way to run linux drivers on windows?

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There's not enough information in this post... we need to know what the drivers are for, and what you want to achieve by running them on Windows.

 

However it is highly unlikely that the answer will be anything other than "no", as @mahyar says. Linux drivers are built for Linux. Windows drivers are built for Windows. You have to use the correct ones.

 

If you're tech-savvy enough to want to figure this out, then you may as well just use Linux anyway...

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22 minutes ago, Lii said:

Is there a stable way to run linux drivers on windows?

Drivers are tailored specifically for different OSes,and due to how different they are it's just impossible or at best impractical slow and buggy.

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2 hours ago, Vishera said:

Drivers are tailored specifically for different OSes,and due to how different they are it's just impossible or at best impractical slow and buggy.

Well, some time ago there was something called like winkvm but it was like a beta.. dunno if anybody did conclude that thing or not

 

Anyway it's just that some drivers are not avaible for windows while on linux they are, though I cannot run linux because I need some software that do work better on windows

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1 hour ago, Lii said:

Well, some time ago there was something called like winkvm but it was like a beta.. dunno if anybody did conclude that thing or not

 

winkvm was in alpha. Designed for Windows XP. Due to security features added since Vista, winkvm can no longer function.

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1 hour ago, Sakuriru said:

Have you tried using linux subsystem for windows?

 
 
 

It can't run linux drivers.

 

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9 hours ago, Sakuriru said:

Have you tried using linux subsystem for windows?

Why not go the other way around?

Install Linux and use Wine.

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2 hours ago, Vishera said:

Why not go the other way around?

Install Linux and use Wine.

Not everything runs on wine

And also wine cannot run drivers, and nvidia drivers sucks on linux 

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5 hours ago, Lii said:

Not everything runs on wine

And also wine cannot run drivers, and nvidia drivers sucks on linux 

Can you give us more information on your setup?

Perhaps through ideas of possible solutions and workarounds?

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Why would you want to do that?

My Laptop: A MacBook Air 

My Desktop: Don’t have one 

My Phone: An Honor 8s (although I don’t recommend it)

My Favourite OS: Linux

My Console: A Regular PS4

My Tablet: A Huawei Mediapad m5 

Spoiler

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Can you give us more information on your setup?

Perhaps through ideas of possible solutions and workarounds?

Ok my hardware:

Ryzen 2700x, rtx 2070 super, crosshair vi hero, 4x8gb 3ghz ram

 

In particular I'm interested to digimed drivers, they might be an easier workarounds than trying to buildup some drivers(for windows) from scratch for a device that I don't have proper documentation (because the manufacturer is unwilling to give any)

 

Though I cannot use linux as stated before because some softwares that I usually use are not supported or might work badly, and some of those are:

 

  • Redshift/vray, they do have linux support, but I couldn't find any benchmark online, so I have no idea how they run
  • Rhino 3d
  • Adobe suite
  • Zbrush
  • Matlab 
  • Other softwares that run on nvidia cards

 

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On 10/19/2020 at 10:55 PM, Lii said:

digimed drivers

What's that exactly used for? 

 

Might help us to find a solution... 

 

(I looked this up, results were highly unsatisfactory) 

The direction tells you... the direction. 

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Softwares used:

Corsair Link (Anime Edition) 

MSI Afterburner 

OpenRGB

Lively Wallpaper 

OBS Studio

Shutter Encoder

Avidemux

FSResizer

Audacity 

VLC

WMP

GIMP

HWiNFO64

Paint

3D Paint

GitHub Desktop 

Superposition 

Prime95

Aida64

GPUZ

CPUZ

Generic Logviewer

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

What Graphical Tablet is it, as in name and model number?

That's a generic driver stack, so it doesn't really mean much other than it happens to support your currently unknown device.

It is not listed to the supported devices though it shares the same hardware to some of those tablets, so it might work even out of the box, but even if it weren't it would be easier to setup something rather than out of nothing

The problem is that the device comes with no drivers, nord proper documentation nor sdks unless I do a big order, but apparently it does with some windows generic drivers but the manufacturer doesn't specify which ones are

But you will not find them by googling

 

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