I've been using Linux for decades and have had many times of installing updates breaking a machine to the point where I'd rather just reimage than try and fix t

I've been using Linux for decades and have had many times of installing updates breaking a machine to the point where I'd rather just reimage than try and fix the pile of issues. So many times of installing updates and now all the graphics don't work, now audio is broken, where did my network adapters go, etc. To the point that now most Linux things I touch, when I want to update I just deploy a fresh image rather than actually install updates. I can't really trust the state of the machine after a year of quietly installing updates. A line item on my agenda today is actually helping a team figure out why when they do a release upgrade on their pet Ubuntu VM practically everything they care about on the box breaks and helping them plan out strategies to un-pet these workloads. I've had a good share of Windows updates making a mess of things, don't get me wrong. But I've had plenty of bad updates in Linux over the years.