I am guessing they meant "Intel networking hw" (typing this on an Ryzen 7 Asus running Ubuntu too). But that's obviously too simple, it would be better advice t

I am guessing they meant "Intel networking hw" (typing this on an Ryzen 7 Asus running Ubuntu too). But that's obviously too simple, it would be better advice to just say "find someone on the 'net who describes installing and using the distro you are considering on the machine you are considering". Though really I haven't had any serious hardware problems under Linux for years (but I have a small stable of machines I am not changing all the time).