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Lazy question:

After migrating from macOS to Linux last spring, there is one application I still miss. It is available for Windows and macOS only.

I tried to get it work with Wine, but the installer complained about missing .Net 4.5.1+ So I installed it, but the installer still complained.

Then I read that Wine cannot emulate Windows 7 + .Net 4.5.1; so I switched to emulation mode to Windows Server 2003R2. Now, the installer complained about only supporting Windows 7 or newer.

So, does anybody know if Wine 3.0 supports Windows 7 + .Net 4.5.1?

(I know, I could do the research myself. Don't bother, unless you know off the tip of your head.)

EDIT: Almost forgot - congratulations to all the developers!!!

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If it's a must have for you, you could try buying a copy of Crossover, which is a commercial version of Wine that employs several Wine developers.

Anyone who owns Crossover is entitled to support, and you may be able to then submit your specific program over to the devs to take a look and see if they can figure out why it's not working.*

Note: I say "might" and "may" because buying a Crossover license doesn't automatically entitle you to demand support for any obscure program you can think of. The developers will take a look at your logs and offer suggestions with no guarantee of a fix. But it is a way of supporting Wine development.

.Net 4.5[1] seems to be well supported at this point. Windows 7 has partial support[2], it really depends what pieces of the windows API are in use.

What is the name of the app?

[1]https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI... [2]https://test.winehq.org/data/

Thank you very much!

The application is called SwyxIt! (the exclamation mark is part of the name). It is a VoIP / Softphone application.

Can be found here: https://www.swyx.de/products/support/support-downloads.html

I hope Wine 3.0 will be available on openSUSE Tumbleweed soon. Once it is, I will give it another try.

Couldn't find it on the AppDB but someone posted in the forums about it a year ago: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27180

Now I feel kind of bad for being too lazy to do that research myself.

Thank you very, very much!

No worries, happy to help get people acquainted with Wine.

What's the application? You can tell Wine to claim it's Windows 7, but that doesn't necessarily mean the application will work.

Wine 3.0 claims to be Windows 7 by default.

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