You can have multiple versions of a program installed in linux. Most package managers won't help you very much with that, but it's about as easy as windows if t

You can have multiple versions of a program installed in linux. Most package managers won't help you very much with that, but it's about as easy as windows if the programs are interpreted or statically linked or compile easily with your system libraries. NixOS and distri are notable package managers that do make installing different versions of packages pretty easy.