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What I would like to to see is open source oscilliscope software since I find this area lacking, particularly in regards to hardware support. The picoscopes look good and are even supported under linux but their prices for the four channel scopes and logic probes I need are unaffordable for individuals. Other scopes are more affordable but support for linux is hard to come by. I hit buy on an Owon scope hoping that I could get their windows software to work under wine but wine was a bust. KVM’s usb passthrough support is incomplete. I did get it to work under virtualbox’s usb pass through though. Still it isn’t great that it depends on windows.
Ideally what I’d love to see is high quality FOSS oscilliscope software that just works with whatever hardware sampler someone owns. Think of wireshark, but for oscilliscopes. It would be everyone’s goto oscilliscope software. I’ve given thought to buying a bunch of scopes myself, reverse engineering them, and writing software to support them as best I can, but I don’t have the means. Admittedly I haven’t tried this, but I don’t imagine any of these manufacturers would be interested in paying someone to write FOSS software with the goal of supporting everyone’s hardware. Although I’m convinced users would love that.