My experience has been the opposite. I started out full time with Linux in 2000. Back then it was hit and miss on hardware support. Lots of fiddling with config files. Compiling from source. Gradually hardware support got better and better. Software became less buggy. I lost the distro hopping bug.

So currently (2 years) Endeavour OS has been smooth sailing for me on my self built desktops. (My laptop is an HP Elitebook 840G refurb.) I am still pretty anal about checking compatibility on any new piece of hardware. If it isn’t clear if it’s supported out of the box, I don’t buy it. Also, one of my absolute demands before purchase is in-kernel drivers. (Once one ditches Nvidia and experiences the pain free operation of AMD and Intel graphics…). All on KDE 5.27 and Wayland.

Endeavour OS. Been on it nearly for two years now.

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