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...at the risk of setting you off again(sorry😣), this is actually one of the reasons I like linux so much...
in the linux world, there's a tool called WINE, that's basically an application layer between 'nix and the software. been around for a decade or so. while it has a lot of trouble with newer stuff, because it's been around so long people have been bashing their heads against older games long enough to get them to work pretty robustly in most cases. There's always exceptions of course, and very little can be done about games that depend on external servers, but it gives me hope that olders games can stay alive a hell of a lot longer.
I'll give an example. there's a couple of RTS games, star trek armada i & II, that I haven't been able to play on modern windows since XP (and even then the first game only with sound acceleration turned off), but a few tweaks, and they both play fine.
but it would definitely be a shame for GOG to go belly up, i'd rather buy from them from steam, and that's with steam having better linux support.
still, no hard feelings if you don't wanna join the cult of the penguin, lol.
I'm vaguely aware of WINE, but I've also heard plenty of horror stories with getting it to work properly, same as any other venture with getting Windows based games to run in Linux. The only positive gaming experience I ever had with Linux was Knytt.
I use fedora with KDE desktop, and most of what I want to play runs fine, though admittedly, I've probably been relatively lucky.
...I've also heard of one game(ark: survival evolved) that runs better under linux through an emulator than it does in either windows or the native linux version, which is weird, to say the least.😅