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On some distros, yes. On others it'll fire up Wine for whatever reason

Okay, yes, if you configure binfmt_misc for WINE and not APE then PE-compatible binaries will get run with WINE and not APE. That feels unfair.

>if you configure binfmt_misc for WINE

It came preconfigured on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04, don't know about newer versions.