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Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, you can run old app on Linux, as long as you compile it manually while solving a shitton of dependency problems.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Still better than getting brickwalled by software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And a Flatpak with an end-of-life FreeDesktop runtime from 2019 or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2017+3 Mk.III

not just having a backed up schroot of the old OS to run with schroot -c oldbuntu -u user /path/to/app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Or a distrobox