Could you give examples for what bricked your system when you "start installing software and drivers" or when you were forced to compile C code as a user? Becau

Could you give examples for what bricked your system when you "start installing software and drivers" or when you were forced to compile C code as a user? Because this all sound so alien to me, I've been using Linux for over 20 years and everything has gotten so much smoother over the years that all this criticism feels completely ignorant to me.