The point is, that under Windows you can take a very old program, sometimes even from the DOS era, and the chances are good, that it will run just fine. UT99 for example runs perfectly under Windows 11 despite being over 20 years older than the OS. That’s mainly because Windows ensures a relatively high degree of backwards compatibility.
Under Linux, running a five year old binary is almost impossible without 500 hacks. That is quite a different experience.
The point is, that under Windows you can take a very old program, sometimes even from the DOS era, and the chances are good, that it will run just fine. UT99 for example runs perfectly under Windows 11 despite being over 20 years older than the OS. That’s mainly because Windows ensures a relatively high degree of backwards compatibility.
Under Linux, running a five year old binary is almost impossible without 500 hacks. That is quite a different experience.