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“In the Windows world, backwards compatibility is the default, but in the Linux world, it’s less so.”

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Linus promises never to break userspace. The libraries on top of the kernel make no such promise, so native Linux ports break as distributions move on. The Windows build running through Proton keeps working. The most stable binary target on Linux is Microsoft’s API. Desktop Linux has been living that joke for a decade.