They will say computers were better then. I disagree entirely. They were horrible and had much less capacity.
I see the same thing for the Internet. People will say they miss the time when it wasn't open for commercial activity. Hogwash... I know, I was there. Content was lacking, speeds were horrible, discoverability was an arcane art, and the costs were obscene.
I'm guessing, not my domain, there is some sort of psychological reason for this sort of thing. Computers were giant, more limited, and expensive. The 'net was no better.
Even after all that, there wasn't much it could do. I'm not sure why I insisted on running that instead of Windows 95.
My only defense is that I didn't do so out of a fake memory of a glorious past. I just like tinkering.
It happens with other things. People say cars were better. Nope. Life was better. Probably not. Etc...
We had bought 40 floppy disks in a bundle, and it turns out one of them was crappy and ended corrupted. It also turned out it was the last of the set of disks for the X11 package. So we had a shiny Slackware install... without X.
Fortunately, iirc, Doom was there intact, and we could run it with the "console" svga backend (that was outside X, but before Linux had the framebuffer, I don't remember how that worked exactly)
Had to wait for the next day to re-download the corrupted image on a different floppy, and install the X11 package.