>Closed source apps that compile fully static, these tend to be stable and Just Run in my experience... but open source apps? Good luck trying to bring these to even compile 10 years afterwards without going through an insane dance with Docker...

who cares?

when a closed source app fails the door is shut for good on self-remediation, unless you want to reverse engineer/break the law.

when an open source app fails to compile you can choose to put the time in to get the thing working. it's not a shut door, it's just a long path.

> who cares?

The problem is that most software people use for work is going to be closed source because the vendor wants to make money on these juicy business contracts.

Linux makes a point of being very difficult to be used with closed source stuff, in kernel and userland alike (getting static compilation to work is an utter PITA), and that is a reason why commercial software written for Linux is rare, and that in turn is the dominant reason why Linux adoption on the workstation has been very slow for a very long time - until a lot of business applications shifted to the browser, making the client OS platform all but irrelevant.