Recent versions of windows - Win10 Pro/Win 11 Pro that support Hyper-V could in theory be used to run Linux side by side with your existing system.
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You¡¯d need SR-IOV capable hardware, and either a PCIe to PCI adapter(Startech makes one that I¡¯ve had good results with in windows systems) plus an NI PCI-GPIB plus a hacked up bracket, or an NI PCIe GPIB card and the special micro 25 pin to 488 cable. With either of those, you¡¯d assign the PCIe bridge chip to the Linux virtual machine with discrete device assignment, meaning it¡¯s no longer available to windows programs.
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It would be easier and probably cheaper to use an old PC with a PCI slot and just run Linux for such programs.
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While I can¡¯t speak for the authors, in general, if a program isn¡¯t built in something like Python, unless it is built using windows libraries that are intended to be cross platform, it is unlikely to be ported to windows. It¡¯s not that it can¡¯t be done¡it¡¯s just that adds a lot of work for an author that wasn¡¯t motivated from the beginning to do it that way. A fork as a windows version is certainly possible, but then you probably will not see updates unless you do them yourself, or attract a user community.
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Perhaps I¡¯m a bit jaded¡about 15 years ago, some people were working on a high performance ADC board, made the design decision to use an Atmel microcontroller that cost a half a dollar more than an XMOS chip that included a right to use a windows usb audio class 2 driver. Ultimately, they probably ate up a year figuring out the USB stack. The worst of it was that the microcontroller didn¡¯t have enough buffer to run a hacked usb stack that would transport data in a way windows could use.
