[lairv]

- Tried 23.04 and found too many bugs (I guess this doesn't count)

- Some day 22.04 randomly started without GUI and I couldn't get it back either with ubuntu-desktop and startx

- I installed a Python package without a virtual environment and it somehow interfered with system Python, bootloader broke

It's possible that those errors were recoverable but I'm not a linux expert and I couldn't repair it after ~2h of stackoverflow

[jacquesm]

Since I disabled auto-update most of such issues have gone away and what works stays working. I suspect the second was due to an auto-update if you had that enabled and don't get me started on python versioning and the way that can impact a system.

[zekrioca]

Never go through odd versions (19.xy, 21.xy, 23.xy,…).

[hsjqllzlfkf]

> installed a Python package without a virtual environment and it somehow interfered with system Python, bootloader broke

Shouldn't the OS python be protected by root?

[colanderman]

> I installed a Python package without a virtual environment

Coincidentally, doing this is now disabled in Debian Bookworm.