Install OpenPlotter to Linux environment instead of Raspberry Pi?

[monos]

I was an OPlotter betatester from the beginning several years ago. Originally Sailoog's idea was that OPlotter could be used in any device. In fact, the early versions could work and I was using them from a PC in addition to the Rpi. But as we advanced, it became clear that it was very important to concentrate on a single device if we wanted to achieve an efficient result. I was testing it in one of the first Banana pi that at that time was a much more powerful device than the original Rpi but as the device varied little problems arose. Trying to make OPlotter work on several devices was a hell. So Sailoog decided to focus on the Rpi and achieve a consistent result.

That said, it is true that OPlotter could theoretically be installed on any PC, but the result would not be the expected because there are a lot of OPlotter things dedicated to interact with GPIO pins and things like that on an ordinary PC have no correspondence.

It wouldn't even be necessary to build since OPlotter works in Python and therefore the code should work on any computer regardless of the architecture (x86, Arm, Amd64, etc.). But the fact is that it is composed of so many different components and many of them directly related to Rpi specific hardware issues that it would be almost impossible to achieve an identical experience.

For an ordinary PC Navigatrix is still a better option as jim321 told you.