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I don't think TowerTall was speaking about this. They are saying: "Recent versions of Windows can run old programs made for old versions of Windows. How?". Th

by jraph 3y ago

I don't think TowerTall was speaking about this. They are saying: "Recent versions of Windows can run old programs made for old versions of Windows. How?". The Linux kernel is very good at it because of the "Do not break userspace" Linus Torvalds' rule. The usual user space on top of the Linux kernel, not so much. So yes, backward compatibility and backporting are different matters. And Windows addresses them both indeed. Your parent commenter is not comparing Windows with Linux.

kelnos 3y ago
I think the point is more of a "so what?" Windows' backward compatibility is completely irrelevant and uninteresting here because we're not talking about backward compatibility, we're talking about long-term support.