I generally avoid Ubuntu, but I'm not looking for an out-of-the-box perfect experience, and I like new hardware. The unfortunate reality is that hardware vendo

I generally avoid Ubuntu, but I'm not looking for an out-of-the-box perfect experience, and I like new hardware. The unfortunate reality is that hardware vendors, not OS vendors, provide software support for their hardware. Additionally, Linux is a minuscule portion of the desktop/laptop market, and hardware vendors can't justify dropping as much money on Linux as they do for Windows. Still, plenty of hobbyists are happy to develop for, test, reverse engineer, and support good hardware, but using Linux on a new platform generally means being on the bleeding edge, which is one of the reasons I like Arch. It also means participating in mailing list discussions, diving into various software projects, and testing and submitting patches. So far, the experience has been mixed, but positive. Like I said, I've experienced a few random lockups, mostly at first. The fans have been working as expected on Linux 5.6.4. Even now, I'm compiling Chromium (for VA-API support), which usually takes an hour or two even on a Threadripper 1950X, and they only spin up occasionally. The battery life at the moment is generally either 2-3 hours (~35W-40W power usage), or 7-10 hours (~7W-10W), depending on hardware usage. This is close to what I've seen from reviewers using Windows, though not quite as good. I expect that to get better as Nvidia improves their dynamic power management, and software support for Linux gets better. Regardless, if you want to play with new hardware, use a rolling release distro, or figure out how to compile newer versions of the packages that come with your distro.