[prox]

Noob here. Why is Linux breakage even a thing? Is it complete rewrites, new drivers, a design decision?

[colordrops]

It's built by a conglomeration of users across various projects, with differing levels of quality and support. There is only so much a distro maintainer can do to curate and test and avoid breakage. The permutations are too many for any manual process to handle, so you've got breakages.

[anotherhue]

Late binding exposing issues that cause run time exceptions. Except it’s not functions it’s bins in in paths. (Or shared objects (shudder))