coyote03: I understand that my question is very strange because it's evidently that games ported to 2014 year ubuntu will not work for older systems. But i know some users that use very old debian 6 (2011 year) in the 2018 and i think they also play games?
drmike: Considering
Debian 6.0.10 was released in 2014, I would think that they should.
6.0.10 is a point minor release of 6 and its package base is updated only for security fixes.
kbnrylaec: Linux kernel have perfect compatibility for decades.
Glibc have super good compatibility for years.
Unless you are playing brand new games links with latest libraries, it will not be a (big) problem to run games on old Linux machines.
However, any serious Linux gamer will not play new games on a too old machine.
Yes, linux will work with a game in any version, but new glibc versions very rarely can be not binary compatible with old versions. So, an app compiled with glibc 2.25 will perfectly work with 2.17, but not with 2.16. So in 2018 you need glibc at least 2.17.
No, we don't have hardware compatibility issues, as i see, new games don't really increase in hardware requirements. So, on older systems may be older linux versions.