Request to Reconsider and Simplify Linux Support for LightBurn

[fins]

Just installed the Windows version on Ubuntu using steam/proton experimental. Seems to work fine. The license activates, despite the license service error (WMIC), which I recall was one of the primary issues. From here

@adammhaile

There are two things that prevent us from making WINE work…

• WINE doesn’t support WMI on 64bit applications. WMI is required for our licensing to work and without it that system is unable to link your license to that specific machine. The failure mode of WMI not being available is that the licensing system will simply not allow you to activate, which would prevent you from being able to run the application (even in trial mode).
• WINE doesn’t have very good support for USB devices beyond serial and a few HID devices (mouse, keyboard, gamepad). This would let some gcode devices that only use serial work (though the user would have to manually map the Linux serial port to the “Windows” serial port. But many DSP and basically any galvo devices we support would not work.

Would it be possible in 1.8+ to add an exception in the cryptlex activation/validation flow on the WMIC error, or specifically detect wine (albeit not the approach recommended by wine), and use an alternative/custom fingerprint to account for wine? WMI doesn’t seem to be requried outside of licensing, and cryptlex does offer the option for custom fingerprinting.

The second part of the above quote, going to test against my 2 devices (a K40 and a JCZ fiber) this weekend.

Again, not calling for full linux support, but a little tweak that may go a long way!
(Or make me sign an NDA and gimme a shot at it…)