You could say that about Pokemon MMOs too, and yet I'm playing PokeMMO in 2025 on my PokeMMO account I created back in 2013.
There are some things Nintendo don't go after, and there are other things that they do go after. Decomps don't appear to be something they go after, which is good because then we can get cool ports of older games too.
I think I tried DamnSmallLinux in a VM around like 2008 or something which I thought was really cool, then I tried Fedora which I didn't really like, then I tried Ubuntu which I really liked and still do, although I'm going to switch to Mint at some point because I prefer the idea of having a community-owned distro.