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Sounds like you might be one of these Windows users. ๐ Most Linux users I know, who have managed to kick the Windows reinstall habit, install Linux at the time of hardware purchase and never reinstall. It's a robust habit taught to us by Microsoft's not-that-great software combined with lax documentation. Personally I'm on Linux since 2005 and only managed to kick the habit around 2012. My current main machine I built in 2014. Installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on it and it's just been upgraded ever since. It got switched from Intel to AMD half way through. Its SSD setup changed from SATA to NVMe, then NVMe MDRAID. Several graphics cards replacements. Zero reinatalls. A friend of mine has an Ubuntu install that dates to 10.04. The better you understand how the system works, the more pointless it becomes to nuke and pave.
Sounds like an administration issue. Ubuntu LTS with unattended upgrades and without sudo membership for their users wouldn't run into surprising breakage, update problems or unwanted installed software. Or Debian stable for that matter but that's more work to setup.