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by jejones3141 1179 days ago
Has anyone tried to run it under WINE?
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dmonitor 1179 days ago
How does Windows have a reputation for "backwards compatibility" when every single piece of legacy software that people want to use shits itself on the latest Windows version, yet somehow runs on WINE.
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BirAdam 1179 days ago
This is the way.

Win32 is now, more or less, the Linux software development api via WINE. Nothing else is stable in the sense of not-constantly-changing.

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ryukafalz 1179 days ago
This is the way, for software like this that's stuck in time. I just recently helped my fiancee get a piece of old bioinformatics software running that wouldn't run on Windows 10. WINE on Ubuntu on WSL2 works fine.
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withinboredom 1179 days ago
Did turning on Windows compatibility not work?
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ryukafalz 1178 days ago
It did not.
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