TI-nspire

I recently purchased a TI-nspire. I would like to be able to connect it so I can load my spreadsheet to it and do some other things, but it seems that it requires a program just to do that, as Linux/openSUSE doesn’t even see it. Even when connected via USB. I did some searching and it seems one has to use WINE, although I did find this Welcome to the TiLP web site

I was wondering if anyone else had any experiences with this calculator and Linux/openSUSE, and what advise you might give.