Comment by int_19h

It would seem from your example that the issue is a lack of overall commitment to compatibility. There are Windows games from 1990s that still run fine w/sound - which is not surprising, given that every old Win32 API related to sound is still there, emulated as needed on top of the newer APIs. It sounds like Linux distros could do this here as well, since emulation is already implemented - they just choose to not have it set up out of the box.