> One specific problem I always had in Linux but never had on other systems is installing a newer version of a software than the one that is present or supporte

> One specific problem I always had in Linux but never had on other systems is installing a newer version of a software than the one that is present or supported by the official package manager. Because the newer version (of the lib, I presume) changes the ABI and borks all the packages that were compiled against the old version? Trying to upgrade something like Mesa from Rawhide or whatever is just going to mess up your install like nobody's business but if you just need a couple minor libs (for a specific program) I've not had any problems. For programs, I've had ones running for years after they got dropped from the distros with zero problems or that I built and installed from some random srpm I found on the interwebs. In all honesty the only 'song & dance' I have to do on a semi-regular basis is rebuild my python modules when Python gets updated on a distro upgrade.