> I had a hell of a time installing something in Ubuntu that required a particular glibc version... I have been in the same situation. But big changes in glibc

> I had a hell of a time installing something in Ubuntu that required a particular glibc version... I have been in the same situation. But big changes in glibc that break things are very rare, most glibc version updates are backward compatible. > Would this new distro have helped? Yes, but it might have required re-compiling some packages. Btw. NixOS is not such a new distro, it's been bubbling under for years now.