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I was actually up late playing Deus Ex the night of September 10, 2001, which I think added an extra layer of surreality to the next day.
Regarding your call to get DOS and Win32 games running on Linux: they do, and have done for years.
I've looked into Linux since switching to Mac, and it's looking kinda slim. I guess there aren't a lot of open source drivers for Apple Silicon. So it's good for people still on PCs, but in a post-PC world, it's nice that it's not Windows, but it's still PC. And honestly, while Linux is a great direction for PCs, it's kinda pointless if you have a Mac. Feels like a big step backwards.
Hence my suggestion (not sure if it was here or another thread) of some kind of container (e.g. Docker) that could be made to work on any platform.
Older games almost always have better compatibility on Linux/wine than windows.
Even notoriously unstable games are marginally less broken. You might even get a full hour of an old heavily modded Bethesda game without major bugs, which you'd never get on the original OS.