If my understanding is correct,the OP has a mountain to climb.Limited experience,not too much support for the machine and a desire for a piece of control software that might not exist.Did the machine arrive with details of the drive properties-that is to say number of steps/mm of travel?That is one of the fundamental requirements for setting up any motion control software. Also, the LinuxCNC forum and their IRC chat on Freenode are both pretty active and people will be willing to help you. A cheap office PC with a parallel port or using a Mesa FPGA board connected over Ethernet are pretty good solutions. From there it’s a matter of configuring LinuxCNC if you have the hardware you need already. Thankfully the LinuxCNC website offers live images of Debian Linux with LinuxCNC and the real-time kernel mod already. Windows, especially Windows 10, is a liability for running a real time system (which is what a CNC milling machine is). However, I’d still reconsider choosing LinuxCNC. Do you have recommendations in this field? So then a commercial software seems to be more suitable for me. My knowledge about Linux is small and with real-time I have no experience. Milling is a side-project and I have no time to dive deep into the ocean of controllers and software. As said above LinuxCNC runs only on Linux, and only with a real-time kernel adjustment.
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