[ntauthority]

A more interesting variant of your question would be 'how come Wine is better at running decades-old Windows software (on systems such as Linux) than Linux is at running decades-old Linux software on Linux?'

... perhaps Win32 is a more stable ABI/API by design.

[arminiusreturns]

It may be time to reconsider recompiling from source as the preferred method over binary distribution.

[ntauthority]

This would be fine if not for even the canonical C/C++ compiler on GNU/Linux having issues building older versions of itself without patches, let alone other applications.

As with older Windows binaries on newer Windows versions, when it doesn't work outright, there's always fixes - but that's not the point this subthread tries to discuss.

[spixy]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471624