And there's enough use of long lived distros (RHEL being the extreme case, but also Ubuntu and Debian) that most software supports older Linux versions. In fact

And there's enough use of long lived distros (RHEL being the extreme case, but also Ubuntu and Debian) that most software supports older Linux versions. In fact, in the case of this particular discussion (Android compatibility), it's quite normal (unfortunately) to have ancient kernels. And also user apps rarely care about the kernel and just use the Android APIs that sit on top of it, so I'm skeptical that AoW would actually need to worry about rapidly changing its kernel emulation.