Barely any of the older Linux binary-only games I have (e.g. the early Humble Indie Bundles ca 2010) run without a lot of effort compared to old Windows games (

Barely any of the older Linux binary-only games I have (e.g. the early Humble Indie Bundles ca 2010) run without a lot of effort compared to old Windows games (in WINE). And even then there are several that I gave up on and some that only run without audio. Running the old Windows binaries is way easier. For several years whenever I buy a DRM-free game I make sure to download both the Linux version (if any; to install and play now) as well as the Windows version (to keep for the future, whenever the Linux version becomes annoyingly difficult to run).