Earlier quoted context omitted.
Win32 is the most stable abi on the Linux desktop.
Correct, most of Linux user land targets API stability, not ABI stability. Windows targets ABI stability because applications are typically distributed as binary blobs. Most applications on Linux are open-source and built per each distro, so it’s a non-issue, just recompile. This doesn’t work for proprietary software that’s distributed as blobs and rarely updated, like say, video games. But that’s a minority of stuff…
Sadly glibc made the choice for everyone that you have to recompile constantly to keep your app working.
That’s one of the biggest issues keeping Linux small on the desktop since nearly no commercial oriented company works that way.
But it looks like we will soon be able to „virtualize“ the dynamic loader so glibc has no say in this matter anymore.