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by myk9001 1867 days ago
>> It’s really nice to be able to run Windows 3.1 code on a Windows Server 2019

You can also run the same version of a newest app on Windows 7 and Windows 10. At least, you could back when 7 was still supported, and you probably still can, but I didn't check.

Try installing a package targeting Ubuntu 21.04 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS? :) (Replace Ubuntu with a distro of your choince in the previous sentence.)

For all its flaws -- and it has many -- Windows is a platform while a Linux distro is a ball of tightly-coupled packages.

>> I just want tools that immediately work.

Totally agree with you here.

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Flatpak solves this :)