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Originally Posted by eschwartz
glibc's ABI supports 20-year-old programs.
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We are talking complex software, not "hello world" one.
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Drivers on Windows break just as often on Windows, you certainly don't get "decades" of use out of them.
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Wrong.
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which is why Linux users rarely worry about installing drivers from a CD...
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In Linux you indeed don't install the drivers from CD like a normal person. You have to compile them, hoping for the interfaces not being fatally broken in the meantime.
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By all means, please do keep telling me how the hundreds of software components I keep on building
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You can build them because the developers keep fixing the incompatibilities of interfaces and the build system. In Windows, stuff compiled once works for decades without constant need of renovation.