Oh, it should work and it will if you put all the files in the right places yourself by say installing it on wine and copying the changes to the wine system directories over, but starting in Windows 11 running the installer gets a deliberate "this program isn't meant for this version of Windows" error.

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Run the installer in compatibility mode, then run the application in compatibility mode?

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago

Didn't work. Application doesn't even need compatibility mode to run. Running the app copied by someone else from their previous Windows 10 computer sorta works but didn't find files installed to system directories. Windows 11 just deliberately refuses to execute the installer probably based on recognizing the old family of installer programs specifically.

The users wanted a new Linux laptop. I installed LMDE, showed them how to run the installer with wine. It made a menu item. Drag and drop from whatever the cinnamon file manager is doesn't work, and there was no file association to open the program's files. I added one that just opens them with wine and lets it figure it out. I also showed them where their wine c drive was.

After a few weeks they wanted to print to pdf as well as their printer from wine and I had them install cups-pdf

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

You will run into a lot of old Library issues. Like elf binary missing, lack of 32 bit is starting to become a problem. If you have any old 2.4 kernel dependencies your probably gonna have a problem in Linux