ITT: People who just read the headlines and not the article, and then going off on their own Windows rant/Linux evangelism instead of discussing the article.
A someone running a proxmox cluster on my gaming PCs, why not just use all of the above? Hell, I still have an XP VM on there somewhere for some particularly grouchy games.
XP was the last Windows OS that supported 16 bit code if I recall correctly, so there’s that. Although most games that needed that are better off with something like DOSbox.