At my job we shut down a system with v4 of RHEL that had an uptime of a few years (we have generator power backups).

I tried to install Animorphs Action Game from an old CD I found from the 90s and it didn't launch. This meme is a LIAR!

Installing 25 year old binaries on Linux is rather interesting - relevant for stuff like some of the old Loki ports. Problem is mostly that they've been written with kernel 2.2 in mind, which does have different behaviour for quite a few things - you generally can find old libc versions compatible with the binary, but those libc versions don't necessarily play nice with the kernel.

There are some compatibility flags which made things work last time I checked - but not sure if that's the case, and it definitely won't work forever, given that 32bit x86 support is likely to be dropped eventually.

Windows: nope, too old. Find a version that's compatible with your current installation.

Trust me, I tried playing some old CD games from my dad's shed on Windows 10 for such a long time, it wouldn't even let me do that without having to rely on a virtual machine. Most of those games were in French and German, btw.

What do you mean? I have yet to find a way to install any game on Windows older than ~20 years.

windows can install jezzball linux cant. checkmate.

Gonna be honest the only older game I had trouble on windows with was Dragon Age Origins. No matter what I did, it crashed out every time