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Running Garmin Express on Linux

Has anyone managed to run "Garmin Express" on Linux (through "wine" maybe)? If so, can you please post the instructions to do so?

Thanks!

PS: along the same lines, @garmin_developers: please consider open sourcing the app so that others can port it to Linux. If the marketing people don't want (it's *always* them!), please try to convince them with the following arguments:

1) Open sourcing brings product awareness.
2) Developers over the world will add new features for free!
3) Open source advocates tend to be very passionate and will push your product in new unexpected markets.
4) The more open a platform is, the easier an ecosystem on top of it is to emerge. A richer ecosystem means better apps, more clients, more money for you to buy a yatch!

:)

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0 f|33tStA over 4 years ago

could this be a solution?

0 3296670 over 4 years ago in reply to DurinVIII_

I've started from 5.10

0 Danil Zarubin over 4 years ago

It's kind of late but I've written a blog post on this. It's in Russian but you can use Google Translate

https://danilzarubin.com/2019/11/12/garmin-express-linux/

0 2914187 over 3 years ago

Me too, want Garmin Express for Linux!

0 Enric666 over 3 years ago

Well, here from the future.
It's still not done. And they do have a Mac version.
Their disregard for open source software showed up in the latest ransomware attack. As it seems thy are still using outdated MS servers and databases, while the rest of the world uses linux-based cloud solutions. Including Microsoft (!)

0 5621784 over 3 years ago

I got it to work on Ubuntu 20.04 with playonlinux:

www.playonlinux.com/.../app-4208-Garmin_Express.html

0 SF43 over 3 years ago in reply to Enric666

This astonished me too. Which company runs their entire network on Windows... I thought nowadays 99% of all servers run on Linux.

Some of Garmin’s developer tools run on Linux, but otherwise they completely neglect a growing user group.

Come on @garmin_developers, port your apps to mainstream Linux distributions already.

Running Garmin apps in a VM or via Wine isn’t nice for your customers.

+1 attackant over 3 years ago

I would like Garmin express on Linux also, at least a way to do firmware and software updates. Thanks.

0 Enric666 over 3 years ago

They don't even need that.
Just pack it in a docker image and be done... no idea what the heck they are thinking about.

Just like with the ransomware attack, seems that the dudes rely on pretty darn old windows based IT infrastructure and they devel team mustn't be too great. Sure, good hardware but the rest sucks big time.

Just like the Connect IQ SDK, the language seems brilliant but there is barely any documentation and the private developers are not encouraged to share their software, which is utterly frustrating for beginners like me.

Anyway, posting in this forum is an exercise in futility and I don't think anybody from Garmin ever reads it... but at least you can blow some steam.

BTW, you could try Wine, though it seems to have an issue as Garmin Express is 32 bit software and last time I tried it threw an exception.

0 Enric666 over 3 years ago in reply to EXPRESSCUSTOMERCARE

Hey from the future:
None of the reasons provided does actually make any sense. The different versions of Linux are totally irrelevant, there is more difference between Widows XP, Windows 10 and Win7 than among any Linux distro.

People do NOT modify Linux, they put their stuff in their home directory like everywhere else.

All-in-One packages for Linux do exist, the same compiling process does package them for any distro you want, PLUS: There is DOCKER and other containers. They existed already back then.