For reasonably popular hardware, compiling kernels or configuring X.org has been a thing of the past for years (unless one really wants to). Since you are aski

For reasonably popular hardware, compiling kernels or configuring X.org has been a thing of the past for years (unless one really wants to). Since you are asking for specifics, I run openSUSE Tumbleweed on an Asus Zenbook UX 305, and with the exception of keyboard backlight, all the builtin hardware works as expected. I have never tried to attach an external display. I did not try Ubuntu on this machine, the Debian installer pretty much bailed on me. (Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro, so the amount of updates it receives can be slightly annoying at times, OTOH the software is very much up to date.) I have to admit I have not tried suspending the machine by closing the lid, but Fn+F1 works reliably.