Linux support

[Stefan-Olt]

Hello,
as probably everybody knows Windows 10 support is ending next year and due to Microsoft politics many PCs cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. As there is often no money at universities and schools to replace the PCs (especially since most IT money is directed towards tablets now), there is some incentive to migrate the PCs to Linux.
Some other common application in physics education is already prepared: Cassy Lab by Leybold already supports Linux (using wine), they are providing a simple installation script.
While I remember Viana.NET not working on Linux using Wine, it now seems to run without any issue. I used these commands to install it:

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine_viananet
export WINEARCH=win32
./winetricks dotnet48
wine msiexec /i 'VianaNETSetupV66.msi'

Of course you need to have wine (with 32 bit support and probably a recent version, I have 9.21 installed) installed and winetricks downloaded. It would be great if others could test it and if it can be confirmed that it works fine provide a installation script similar to Cassy.
In case some issues are found, it would be great if they could be fixed (those will be most likely caused by Viana using a function not implemented in wine and can maybe worked around)

Brest regards
Stefan