Here's another one from me. Wipeout was an ultra cool game. This is from 1995 and is still in fantastic condition, box and game inside are barely touched (how do you add multiple pics on here?). Wipeout featured a fantastic soundtrack featuring Orbital, Chemical Brothers and Leftfield amongst others. It was probably one of the earliest games to show what the PS1 was really capable off and blew away anything the competition had.
No, I think Proton is absolutely better for old games than Windows these days. That's kind of what my point was.
I'm not sure if Steam on Windows gives you the same Proton compatibility options as Linux, but it's often as simple as adding the game to Steam and clicking "start"