> it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely. That's a completely backwards take though. Windows is practic

> it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely. That's a completely backwards take though. Windows is practically the only platform in the world that cares about backwards compatibility. On Windows you can run a 20 year old executable and you've got pretty good chance it runs. With Linux operating systems you have no idea if something compiled on the last LTS release runs on the next one. This is one of the few issues where having a private company control the entire stack and providing a stable ABI for decades is actually a benefit, to the point where your target if you want to build games on linux is...Win32 (https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/ https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/)