I'm wondering if the best approach to going full Linux would be to copy-paste somebodies' benchmark because surely if I get a brand new purpose built PC with all the right components? I bring this up because I remember how when I was messing around with Linux mint awhile back and I had very little time the damn wireless adaptor I had wouldn't even get detected.
The steam deck would potentially be the next best thing I suppose and have a different Linux distro installed on that. Going to have to have a think about it and I'm making this thread because I wonder if there have been people who have done proper experiments on this because I do think the hardware lottery is real with Linux.
It's more of a general thing, but I will point out when I tried Linux recently I did have endless problems trying to even install the damn distros and they wouldn't behave themselves. Meanwhile on other youtube tutorials they were running absolutely fine. It seems that answers my question though of yes, if you go Linux, there is such a thing as a Linux PC and you should purpose build it according to that. It probably explains why I've been having so many issues which is odd because my PC isn't that remarkable it's a really standard mid-tier machine.
I haven't had any issues with installing distros yet so I can't comment on that, although I did have issues trying to install wine.
I don't blame people for giving up on Linux, because I have experienced that frustration of searching online only to see people act as if Linux doesn't really have any issues and that it must be your fault if you have problems. I happen to be motivated to make it my main OS though, so I was prepared to invest hours of time troubleshooting and configuring things.