Your telling me!
With all the updates that brick Windows 10 or 11 and or make it slow as shit, I don't know how people put up with it. I have had this laptop for about 6 years now running Mint and I haven't gotten any problems, yet if I compare with parents newer laptop running Windows 11 I have had to fix botched updates by Microsoft 5 times in the past 1 1/2 year since it was bought and this 6 year old laptop runs circles around it on boot and doing anything.
For any specialty programs I use Lutris with an install script for convenience (has more than just games) or I google to find out what special dependencies the program might need for the WinePrefix.