https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47955
--- Comment #7 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- ...In fact it behaves the same way on Windows. Nice.
I suspect that Vminteq17.exe is supposed to be run first, because on Windows that prompts me to choose a location for user-editable files, and the options are those that Vmindefault.exe tries.
Anyway, Vminteq17.exe fails because Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interpreter.CreateObject() is unimplemented. There's a pull request in mono-basic over a year old that seems to have never received any review: https://github.com/mono/mono-basic/pull/48