[QuadrupleA]

I'm not new to all this - I used Slackware and Red Hat on the desktop in the early 2000s, and I use Linux on the server side daily. But on two separate laptops recently, manufactured 10 years apart, I've had all kinds of glitches and performance problems with (Arch) Linux, on a variety of desktops (Sway, KDE Plasma, Gnome) especially around video and GPU. You could say just don't buy Nvidia - but one, too late, and two, if you want to do anything interesting in AI these days they're hard to compete with.

YMMV and if you're just in the shell and in VIM all day you might not notice video glitches and performance problems (computers did text terminals in the 70s so it's not a high bar). But as a lapsed game dev I have an eye for stutter, missed frames, etc, and those were pretty constant in my configs, despite sinking probably a hundred plus hours in, time I won't get back.