Maybe someone who's locked into XP could try dual-booting with Linux to run LTspice and let us know how it goes."
I'm pretty sure at least two people here have already reported that LTspiceXVII does run in Linux with Wine emulating XP.
I contend that Wine emulating XP is not 100% the same as Microsoft Windows XP, so to me at least, it's not surprising if it runs differently on an XP-emulator than on XP itself.
