There are a lot of great Linux distributions with their own special purposes and niche. But I can't deny that Ubuntu is special because it's the first distro I have managed quite well.
One of the best thing about Ubuntu is the support for their older, EOL repository. If you are interested to dig to older apps to run on your newest Ubuntu system, you could still use their old release repository.
With the current technology called AppImage, you could safely build and run an old app, fetched from Ubuntu old release repository. Here are the Ubuntu's old-release repository you could use:
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ CODENAME-security main restricted universe multiverse
Replace CODENAME with the Ubuntu version you desire to use. For the detailed Ubuntu CODENAME releases, you could refer to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history
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