Many thanks for the further info. I did some reading in the meanwhile,

It seems that the CW software is windows only. The older versions could run under mono on linux (the first link you provided) but i haven't read anything similar for the current ones (provided by wanhao).

I am also looking into the anycubic photon which is similar to the D7, and trying to figure out if it has a linux version. It seems that it is using a similar program to CW possibly running via wine.

I suppose not all slicers are able to export to cws formats that the D7 reads via the usb right?

I hope i ll be able to sort it out since the no-linux friendly software is a dealbreaker to me.