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That is solved by containerization (cgroups and namespaces), which is initially popularized by docker, which appeared about 12 years ago. And newer things like flatpak and snap are just bells and whistles over this.



I have flatpaks from several years ago that no longer work (Krita) due to some GL issues.


I heard OpenGL has a bad compatibility story, which was the reason games used DirectX.




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