That aligns with my experience. Getting old games running tends to be easy on Wine or Proton. I was told the Microsoft products are supposed to have a relatively stable core interface to theoretically offer compatibility as well. But then there's just so much stuff on top and in between so it doesn't work for stuff like games. And I'm not sure if they made some kind of cut sometime as well. Drivers for peripherals also don't work. At least I and people I know had to discard old hardware over the years, and that's pretty much unheard of with Linux, unless you got some driver as binary only or whatever Nvidia did to occasionally break stuff.