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There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/servers.
> Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies.
I wouldn't go so far. The 64-bit port of Windows dropped support for all 16-bit applications, whereas they still run flawlessly through Wine.
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There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/servers.
> Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies.
I wouldn't go so far. The 64-bit port of Windows dropped support for all 16-bit applications, whereas they still run flawlessly through Wine.