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No, that is not a relevant reason. There are people who have pinned their Windows versions, there are people who bypass Steam's autoupdates to run old versions of games, this is a general computing problem not a Linux problem. If you want to be particular about the version of something you're running you're not going to be able to rely on systems which were designed to remove that consideration from you, period. Nobody has ever promised that Linux or any other OS would just make all versions of everything work together all the time and you have the total freedom to pick anything with no consequences.