It's absolutely true. It's not true of the kernel. But if you depend on any .so files provided by your distro, then you can reasonably assume that once the vers

It's absolutely true. It's not true of the kernel. But if you depend on any .so files provided by your distro, then you can reasonably assume that once the version of your distro goes EOL you're going to running your app in a docker container later (unless you continually maintain all the breakages). That's why I always make static binaries. Since if you only link the kernel, then you're good. WIN32 is also pretty stable. Always has been compared to the Linux userspace. You have to go back 20 years (like the OP) before unmaintained WIN32 apps start falling apart.