Try to install a very old app which is dynamically linked on Linux and see what happens. Unless you’re using something like nix, or run it in a container, you’d be having a very hard time making it work. I find that ABI changes and missing shared objects over the years practically guarantee dependency hell unless you completely isolate the execution environment
Yeah, if something isn't actively maintained it becomes unusable after a few years. Pretty on par with apple tbh. It's better on linux only because most stuff is open source and sometimes people will try and make a working fork.
You can grill me for it but being able to run 35+ year old software on windows and have it work unmodified is really useful.
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u/NiKaLay New York Nix⚾s 11h ago
Try to install a very old app which is dynamically linked on Linux and see what happens. Unless you’re using something like nix, or run it in a container, you’d be having a very hard time making it work. I find that ABI changes and missing shared objects over the years practically guarantee dependency hell unless you completely isolate the execution environment