I would expect, that this is nothing that blender handles and it's all handled by the OS... so naming your OS version would perhaps be more helpful.

Are you sure this problem only occurs in Blender?

Edit: if the link can be seen and opened from file browser or other applications can see and open the link, check if blender is installed as a flatpak or something similar. Flatpaks etc sometimes have different permission on file access. If the symlink is pointing to a restricted path that could be a problem.

Someone on Ubuntu 24 with Blender installed as snap, had a similar problem and apparently found a workaround (issue thread here)

I tested on Zorin OS 18 (so Ubuntu 24.04 i think) with Blender installed as Flatpak, symlinks seem to work without problem.