Any chances you guys could suggest me one setup that “just works” no ifs and no buts? Or does it not exist in the Linux world?
You’ve given so little insight into your experience
My most recent hardware has been fine
- My framework 13 amd works perfectly with Fedora Kinoite.
- My Minisforum UM780XTX has been a great Steam console with Bazzite
- My desktop is a gigabyte x570 board with a ryzen 3700X and a 5700XT GPU, has been solid for years, running Fedora KDE and then Kinoite.
- My workstation at work is a HP 845 G11 and it works fine, also running Fedora Kinoite
In the past I’ve had thinkpads (an X1 carbon and a T485), also good choices
Over my 12 years of using Linux as my daily for work and home (and about 13 years of fiddling with it on and off before that), avoid realtek hardware, avoid nvidia gpus, avoid switchable graphics, avoid strange OEM feature devices. Check hardware for compatibility before you buy it. Stick to mainstream distros, not niche 1 man community distros. I’ve moved to immutable/atomic distros because they are harder to tinker with outside of user space, as historically tinkering is what got me into trouble, now I do that in a container away from my base OS.
there is some change of workflow, but its not difficult. The benefits outweigh the changes or any perceived draw back IMHO