Carbide Motion for desktop Linux?

Software Carbide Motion
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I just bought a Shapeoko Pro. Are there any plans to make Carbide Motion available for Linux on Intel/AMD?

Failing that, has anyone had success running Carbide Motion in a Windows 10 VM under VirtualBox on Linux? Otherwise I guess I can dual boot but I would prefer a native solution.

Thanks!

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I use Carbide Create in a windows 7 VM with VirtualBox. I’ve not tried carbide motion in the VM. You may want to look into the Raspberry PI version of Carbide Motion.

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I’ll give it a try with virtualbox and I’ll look into the Raspberry Pi version. Thanks for your help!

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Yes, it works with USB passthrough.

That said, if you’re using Linux, you’re more likely of the tinkering persuasion, so you might appreciate a more complete G-code sender like UGS or cncjs, which are Linux-compatible anyway.

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Thanks @Moded1952. You’re right, I am a tinkerer but I thought it best to run everything stock until I get familiar with it. Probably will switch to ugs after that.

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