[gavinray]

What versions did you use out of curiosity?

Maybe my experience has been partially luck due to compatible hardware. I had some pretty bad experiences 10 years ago (install the OS, and the wifi driver doesn't work/wasn't installed, now can't get online to download it LMAO).

In the past 3 years I've had 2 issues:

  1. I bought a laptop that had an NVIDIA RTX 2060 when they had only been out for a while. The LTS version of Ubuntu + Pop_OS didn't have the kernel updates with compatibility, so I had to upgrade kernel from the boot menu.

  2. I connected two external monitors, one through HDMI and one through DisplayPort <-> USB <-> HDMI. I wanted to have one monitor vertical and one horizontal, I could not get it to work with a mix of vertical and horizontal layouts with 3 screens -- only with 2 screens.

This would have been Pop_OS! 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.

See here for writeup on the NVIDIA thing:

https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/1199#issuecomment-68322...