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    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I don’t see your point, the person I replied to said it’s hard to run old applications on Linux and I gave him solutions on how to do that. What does their age have to do with anything?

    it’s hard to run old applications on Linux

    What does their age have to do with anything

    I'm not sure if you're taking the piss but since those solutions are so recent, you won't find old applications packaged with those solutions.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    They don't need to be packaged at the time of creation anyway, they can be packaged right now. Distrobox makes this easy, like let's say you need an application that only works on Ubuntu 18.04. It's two commands:

    distrobox create --image ubuntu:18.04 ubuntu

    distrobox enter ubuntu -- sudo apt-get install _package_

    Then to export the package to your desktop you can even do

    distrobox enter ubuntu -- distrobox export --app _application_

    Boom, you have an Ubuntu 18.04 application on an OS of your choosing. You can theoretically do this with any distro, distrobox can use any OCI images from docker-hub, quay.io, or any registry of your choice.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't exactly call that easy, but compared to how it used to be, fair enough.