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Building software from source. It depends on the program, of course, but most of the time it's quick and easy. Just download a folder, type in a couple commands, and you're done.
This has almost never been my experience.
Much more often, different versions of software dependencies, operating system differences, artifacts left by other software/previous versions, etc, result in mysterious errors. 5 hours of rabbitholes later, I find a comment on github explaining that x broke y and they'll fix it in the next release... 7 years ago. At which point I throw my computer out the window and leave to live the rest of my life in the forest.
That sounds frustrating. I'm sorry.