Hardware support and lack of polishing has always been an issue in the Linux world and all distributions have suffered from it one way or another.
Having spent quite a lot of time in the past on this kind of issues, I do sympathize.
But from my experience, things actually tends to get a bit better now days, for example, I'm far less cautious about avoiding Broadcom ethernet and wifi cards as they generally tends to work out of the box today (even if I still prefer Intel for these).
Fighting hardware/default configuration issues is unfortunately be part of the game, but in my experience, it's a game I play less and less often.
Hardware support and lack of polishing has always been an issue in the Linux world and all distributions have suffered from it one way or another.
Having spent quite a lot of time in the past on this kind of issues, I do sympathize.
But from my experience, things actually tends to get a bit better now days, for example, I'm far less cautious about avoiding Broadcom ethernet and wifi cards as they generally tends to work out of the box today (even if I still prefer Intel for these).
Fighting hardware/default configuration issues is unfortunately be part of the game, but in my experience, it's a game I play less and less often.