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Pull a docker image of an old distro into an apptainer sandbox, install what you need within, then make a
.sif
image, should work pretty much in perpetuity. You can also try to make an Appimage.That's what DistroBox is for: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
I was coming here to post this.
TIL about sif. Thanks, will give it a try!
I am a beginner Linux user, if above scenario happens to me , I will not know what the hell you are talking about and just get windows, the linux community , here does not support the average user even in memes.
This was just an outline of what you could do in the scenario, not a full solution. Looking up the keywords, "Apptainer" (+sandbox), ".sif", and "AppImage" should give you a starting point, and any specific questions can be answered separately. You are right that people could be jerks to beginners but this is rarely the intent. Not all discourse about Linux has to be at a beginner level, and packaging legacy software is not really a beginner topic.
I am using linux for 20+ years and don't understand what they said. And I don't even want to, I was using wine to run open source software before flatpak, when I need it once a year.