Comment by seba_dos1
12 hours ago
Yeah, in my 20 years of using and developing on GNU/Linux the only binary compatibility issues I experienced that I can think of now were related to either Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader or games.
Adobe stuff is of the kind that you'd prefer to not exist at all rather than have it fixed (and today you largely can pretend that it never existed already), and the situation for games has been pretty much fixed by Steam runtimes.
It's fine that some people care about it and some solutions are really clever, but it just doesn't seem to be an actual issue you stumble on in practice much.
Probably because your distro purposefully keeps software out of date because it is too fragile otherwise. I don't think that is reasonable at all for desktop use.
Arch?...
The solution to games is to load Windows games instead of Linux binaries.
Basically the way for the year of the Linux desktop is to become Windows.
These days Linux binaries usually work fine, even older ones, and when they don't the reason is that they often don't get the same attention as their Windows counterparts.