[MonaroVXR]

Hardware "issues" depends on the hardware being supported for that distribution, desktop environment and more.

My Realtek Ethernet doesn't work on Fedora 38, but it did work out of the box with Pop!_OS.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a good email client.

[carlosjobim]

I tried a few different distros before settling with Ubuntu. Different things would work or not work in different distros on the laptop I had. I had read good things about PopOS, but it would not install. I liked ElementaryOS and found the UI more beautiful than MacOS, but something important didn't function (I've forgotten what it was). Congrats to the developers and designers of Linux desktop environments (ElementaryOS, KDE and Gnome) for having the best looking GUIs without losing clarity and usability. They are superior to anything from Apple, Microsoft or Google. Unfortunately it seems that "the rest of Linux" hates GUIs and GUI-workflows.