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I’ve got one progam that I need for work that I cannot get to run on Linux. I’ve tried WINE on both Ubuntu and Zorin (and winlator for android). I have the installer exe file and try to launch with WINE but then nothing happens. Is that a program problem, WINE limitation, or something else? Is there a different program I should try to launch it?
How are you launching the exe with WINE? Try doing it via the command line if you aren’t already. That way you may get some more information about why it isn’t working. Its as simple as
wine path/to/your/exeYou could also try something like Bottles, which will let you use possibly newer versions of WINE without modifying your system’s WINE.
It could be that only the installer has issues. If you’re dual booting have you tried launching the already installed program from your windows partition?
Otherwise I would try launching the installer from the wine command line to see if it gives you a specific error there.
Using a different version of WINE/Proton could work. It may also depend on some extra utilities you need to install on your WINE prefix (Wine tricks is the tool to use for this). If that doesn’t work, the almost guaranteed to work option is a virtual machine running Windows. This comes with a small performance hit, but that may not be a concern.