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Wine provides such long term support, but not Windows. I.e. many games from early 2000s don't run on recent Windows, but work in Wine.

Example: https://www.gog.com/game/vampire_the_masquerade_redemption

GOG doesn't list recent Windows as supported. But it works in Wine.

In this sense, the long term way to run old Windows games is Wine on Linux because Wine translates old Windows ABIs into modern Linux ones.

But there is no comparable translation of old ABIs for native Linux ones.