Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.
Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.
I installed the Screaming Frog SEO tool on Ubuntu, using the official .deb.
Turns out it needed one specific lib that was no longer in Ubuntu’s repositories for the current release, just older releases.
So I downloaded and installed that lib manually. It completely broke Gnome, but in subtle ways, like the interface would still exist and work but icons would randomly glitch out and menus would vanish.
Honestly, I’ll take Windows’ duplicated DLL files over this mess every time.
Flatpaks and containers really are the next step forward for reasons like this.