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> Saying an ability to run older binaries does not exist is just wrong.

For 99.99% of users this "ability" does not exist. End of story. Period.

I don't care about hacks on tops of tricks on top of hacks. People are not interested in this madness.

Every second comment in this discussion comes from a hardcore software developer who desperately tries to vindicate core Linux flaws by providing workarounds which would work only for people like you.

This is NOT how the world works. This is NOT what people care about or interested in. If cars, refrigerators, microwave ovens worked like that no one would buy them.

If it's Linux? Ah, totally fine.

I'm done with this exercise in futility.

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Then you acknowledge your previous claims about the capability not existing were wrong. You also contradict yourself by saying elsewhere that mostly geeks run Linux, which implies far more than 99.99% of users can do this. It is not a hack either. It is the way you are supposed to run old software by design.

Can you stop making shit up?

I dare you to grab a Linux distro from the late 90s/earlier 00s and run any application that uses GTK1 or Qt1/2 on your Ubuntu 24.

Without spending insurmountable amounts of time. You will fail miserably. Your 0.0001% example is pure BS.

I run Gentoo, not Ubuntu. I have run graphical software from Ubuntu on my machine in a chroot that spoke to my X11 server in the past. I did it to get a Windows game running whose anticheat had wine support that was incompatible with newer versions of glibc than 2.32. A similar process should work with an old Linux distribution binary.

That said, you refuse to recognize that you are wrong no matter how much evidence is presented and even go so far as to present evidence debunking what you say while claiming it supports what you say. If I were to run a graphical application from the 90s on my machine, you would accuse me of making up the result. Since you will say the same thing even if I did this exercise, why should I bother?