[twunde]

This is much more viable than it was in the past with the advent and adoption of nvm, pyenv etc but the limiting factor becomes system dependencies. The typical example from yesteryear was upgrading openssl but inevitably you'll find that some dependency auto updates a system dependency silently or requires a newer version that requires upgrading the OS.

[DiabloD3]

So why are you using a Linux that forces that on you?

Sane people use Debian, Debian packages are compatible with the Debian release they are from. I do not have to worry about accidentally installing an incompatible deb; even if I try to, apt won't allow me to install a package whose deps cannot be satisfied because they're too new (and thus, not in my release's package repo).

I know other distros have problems with release management, but this is why I've used Debian for the past 20 years and will continue to use Debian

[curt15]

>Debian packages are compatible with the Debian release they are from.

That won't save you if an application requires newer tooling or libraries than whatever is in Debian stable. Once that happens the application needs to bundle its dependencies. But that is precisely why people use containers.