"The bad: ABI stability I’m used to being able to run binaries I compiled years ago on a modern system. This is generally possible in Linux, assuming you have

"The bad: ABI stability I’m used to being able to run binaries I compiled years ago on a modern system. This is generally possible in Linux, assuming you have the correct shared libraries available." May be true for terminal stuff that rely mostly on kernel syscalls to get stuff done. But deity help you if you try to get a GUI binary you want to get going. You may well have to clone a distro from back then in terms of libs. And things may even balk at Xorg if something happens to talk some xlib stuff that didn't come along in the xcb transition...