Well, that’ll be a problem for anything that’s got crossplay between XP and Linux in a local environment.
someone using xp probably won’t mind using some outdated linux kernel as well
Completely incorrect. You can find old Debian releases here:
https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/
That’s the official Debian site and contains releases going back to 2002. You can surely find older versions if you really want with a bit of effort beyond 2 minutes of searching that it took me to find this.