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.
Yes there is. I've tried 3 times before finally sticking with it. For instance, I remember trying out ZorinOS a long time ago, and it simply refused to install because I was using latest AMD Zen CPU.
As a general advice, I'd recommend avoiding nVidia GPU as much as possible and sticking with AMD, and avoid wireless hardware.
I think Intel wifi cards at least work. They all are gonna require bullshit microcode, I think. If it's a desktop, I can imagine why you'd use wireless, but whatever you're thinking is probably a bad idea. Ok so I give you that. On laptops, they come with wifi so you want it to work, but a lot of them come with Intel which has worked for me with Linux easily.