• geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    That’s true but on Windows it’s mostly just clicking install on everything on ninite. Linux libraries sometimes can’t even install on a newer kernel.

    I can usually get old Windows programs to run on newer Windows versions. On Linux I rarely had that sucess.

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      5 hours ago

      Linux libraries sometimes can’t even install on a newer kernel.

      i’m curious where you run into this. i’ve never had this issue in 10 years of using Linux, most of which being on Arch with the latest kernel

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        5 hours ago

        Trying to do something like run ROS on anything but the Ubuntu distro it was made for.

        Flashing an embedded board which requires Ubuntu 20.04 and didn’t accept me using 22.04

        Some more stuff too but I’ve forgotten

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          3 hours ago

          oh i see. embedded systems makes sense. i wouldn’t even try to go beyond the factory recommendation for systems like that. maybe for fun. likely there are kernel modifications or modules that are required for those systems.