Linux isn't much better either these days, with the same shenanigans leaking in like cancer for no reason.
Every time I forget to kill and purge unattended-upgrade on some Ubuntu install it ends up messing up my system at some later point because apt just can't keep its grubby little hands of my fucking packages. The other day it broke Nvidia drivers on one machine which took me a while to fix. Sometimes it'll just decide it needs to run an update for something e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y-s-l-o-w-l-y while blocking all apt installs for like an hour if you happen to be on slow wifi.
Canonical's worst design decision by far, and that list includes picking Gnome as their desktop environment.
There are distros that don't have the same problems (and I will probably be switching to one the next time I have to configure a new Linux machine, since Ubuntu, as you say, is getting way out of hand). That's one of the nice things about Linux.
I'm sure there are, but like those Windows users I'm unfortunately locked to flavors of Ubuntu by ROS and some other software. Kubuntu is generally pretty nice once you take out the trash and add the missing bits. At least it stays configurable enough to fix for now.
Every time I forget to kill and purge unattended-upgrade on some Ubuntu install it ends up messing up my system at some later point because apt just can't keep its grubby little hands of my fucking packages. The other day it broke Nvidia drivers on one machine which took me a while to fix. Sometimes it'll just decide it needs to run an update for something e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y-s-l-o-w-l-y while blocking all apt installs for like an hour if you happen to be on slow wifi.
Canonical's worst design decision by far, and that list includes picking Gnome as their desktop environment.