I cannot oversell how important Linux has become for preserving old PC games.

Windows 95 titles? Runs them. DOS relics? No problem. Weird shovelware nobody remembers? Yep, that too. Stuff that modern Windows actively breaks, Linux just shrugs and says “load it up.”

Thanks to Proton, Wine, and Lutris, you don’t need to hack config files or run sketchy patches—you just point to the .exe and it works.