It's a different situation, OS/2 was significantly more expensive than Windows, Linux is free.

os/2 2.1 was free during some periods in the 90s, I and several friends got it just for the free floppies. Though none of us paid for windows either, I guess it was free as well.

The development tools for OS/2 were worse and far more expensive.

It’s working right now, what are you arguing against.

It seems to be working, that is the thing building castles in foreign kingdoms.

What do you mean? There is a whole library of thousands of win32 games spanning more than 2 decades and the community is tracking and reporting bugs in each and classifying their level of performance.

That’s one of the most successful computer projects I’ve heard of.

Sure, if one ignores all the existing emulators for previous computer generations, and game consoles.

If you want hardware emulation you can use a vm like virtual box…

I don’t even know what you’re arguing now.