Anger Does Not Get Positive Results
Patience is a virtue
Yesterday I spent a rather long time trying to 'fix' something that broke in my secondary laptop rather than "just reboot" to "fix it". I managed after a lot of effort and studied a lot in the process. Seeing that my main laptop has been up for 506 days and the other laptop 440 days (secondary laptop), it's getting close now to 1,000 days of combined uptime (about a month from now).
The short story is that the machine was gradually running low on RAM because an IRC client takes more and more over time (if poorly designed). So sometimes it's necessary to close it and start it again (maybe once in a few months). Due to a lack of RAM the sound system broke and it wasn't so trivial to bring it back up (there's pulseaudio, pipewire, a shim between them two, and more).
People with little patience and short temper (or short-term thinking) probably just say "sod it" and reboot. It does "fix" the problem, but that does not find or address the cause/s. Moreover, it results in having to restore all sorts or processes and applications.
Working with computers while you're angry or stressed is generally a bad idea. It's better to take a break, take a hike somewhere else, then come back later. Anger almost never solves any issues. Persistence is also a good teacher. █