I don't run desktop Linux anymore because I got a substantial discount on a Macbook about a year ago and my current laptop was falling apart, but I really don't

I don't run desktop Linux anymore because I got a substantial discount on a Macbook about a year ago and my current laptop was falling apart, but I really don't feel like this has been an issue in the last ~5 years (at least for me). Before last year, I had run Linux for nearly ten years, and the last five of which I would typically be happy enough if I just flashed Ubuntu to a flash drive, plugged into my laptop, installed, and moved on with my life. Generally, Linux would just work; I would get my games through Steam, basically everything else through the Ubuntu store, and things generally worked fine out of the box. I will say that prior to ~2016, it was a completely different story. Whenever I had to reinstall Linux (which was frequent), I could expect to spend several hours hunting down drivers and figuring out how to finagle GRUB or DKMS to work, but I largely don't feel like this is an issue anymore, at least not with the "mainstream" distros like Ubuntu or Suse.