Sometimes yes, other times there are conflicts because a lot of libraries are not forward compatible (glibc for instance) and different distributions have diffe

Sometimes yes, other times there are conflicts because a lot of libraries are not forward compatible (glibc for instance) and different distributions have different conventions for library naming and paths. In my experience, you usually have to use a lot of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and related shenanigans to get anything working and it will still break when interfacing with software that uses a different version of GLIBC.