It’s some piece of art and the resemblance is intentional. Search for “Buttplug Gnome” to find out more.

Well not if you’re on Ubuntu and need the latest version of e.g. npm for some nvim plugin, because that version is not in the repository.

somepackage requires otherpackage version >10.1.79

otherpackage is already at latest version

Have fun compiling it yourself and messing up what is managed by the package manager and what’s not. And don’t forget that the update might break some other package along the way

How can you make sugar water taste bad? Or am I not getting something here?

As someone in an important position once said to me, having a PhD shows that you have frustration tolerance.