Update Trauma
I want a few perspectives on this because I feel like I'm hitting edge cases every time I update.
I'm on Linux Mint and one day I updated without thinking about it too hard, many updates before went without a hitch after all. After the update however, my sound bar stopped being recognized through the s/pdif cable and after many, many hours of research, I finally gave up and continued connecting through bluetooth (which has its own issues).
Fast forward to the next update, I'm thinking "I already know something is going to break, but let's just update anyway and see what happens!" Well, what happened is that my main steam game which I play to relax and upload to youtube stopped launching because of some monitor resolution error. Every other game I tested worked, it was literally just my favorite game that was shot down by pure chance. Once again, after hours and hours of research I gave up and rolled back with timeshift.
After that I vowed to never update again. Fast forward to me installing Linux Mint 22.3 on a new computer and seeing updates available. I'm thinking "I know something is going to break, but at least this is a brand new install so it won't have much impact." Well, guess what? After I restarted the pc, it got permanently stuck on the startup logo.
Is this just bad luck? Why can I reliably predict something breaking when updates are supposed to make your system better?