I feel like I've been burned by too much for-pay software on linux being super fragile, hard to get running outside of a very specific system configuration, inc

I feel like I've been burned by too much for-pay software on linux being super fragile, hard to get running outside of a very specific system configuration, incompatible with the rest of the ecosystem, impossible to integrate into normal workflows, etc. Speaking extra cynically, on linux, "good looking" seems inversely correlated with "actually works", too. I suspect the incentives in software sales just don't support what makes linux environments actually worthwhile to use. I'm also cheap as hell, ymmv.