I think it is because in Ubuntu, Gnome is more common than KDE. It just seems that KDE people are more vocal in their opinions.

I am working in company where about 35% of users are on Windows, 40% on Linux and 25% on Mac. In Linux, official way to use MS Office is web apps, but Libreoffice is quite heavily used too.

How to know if you are old:

First thing which comes to mind from DDR is not game about dancing or computer memory, but Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

Wild guess. Libspa version has changed and thus its path too. You will have to put (probsbly new version) of aac.so file to new libspa directory.

Yeah, it might require new one if dependencies have been changed.

Note. Before rebooting, regenerate initramfs for all kernel versions. I am not in debian, but dpkg-reconfigure initramfs-tools might do it.

What filesystem is in use where lotro files are stored?