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I used to think ancient games were hard to play, trying to build a retro box, failing, trying to run a Win 98 VM, failing, trying to install patches on Win 10, failing, etc. Then I tried installing them on Linux with Lutris, and everything worked.
This was my exact experience too, with Bottles.
For instance "Sims 1 is SO DIFFICULT to get running on modern Windows! (Complicated hacky guide)"
...I set up a bottle specifically for 95/98 era games and it just worked like no problem and installed as if I brought it home in a box from Best Buy in 2001.
Sometimes a minor setting tweak or something helped, but otherwise it's CRAZY what stubborn games will run well on Linux now!
And this is using Nvidia, too. Truly awesome times.