It is frustrating. What I do is keep computers from a given time era in their natural state of software. So now I have a physical computer for running GR 3.6 stuff, one for 3.7 stuff, and soon I'll have one for 3.8 stuff. Trying to constantly upgrade and getting rid of old installs is counterproductive.

This applies in general to all software. It's really nice to have old OSes use applications that can't run on newer distros.