I haven't used ubuntu on any box I personally use in a while, so take it with a grain of salt, but it seems like it's the only distro all the "X didn't work on linux for me" complaints seem to be about. Experiences dealing with it on projects locked into e.g. proprietary Nvidia SDKs or whatever have involved a lot of head-scratching about what they consider "sane defaults" and headaches around package compatibility. All things considered I'm starting to think Ubuntu specifically has kinda jumped the shark as a distro
For what it's worth, I haven't had serious ACPI issues on Arch on any device for about a decade. Might be worth seeing what else is out there, if these sorts of pain points are cropping up for you a lot. Rolling-release also has the advantage of never having to fully reinstall the OS unless you really go and break something. I've had bad luck with in-distro upgrades breaking horribly whether it's debian or fedora or what have you, but rolling-release installs have lasted me... I think the longest one was 12 years? An old webserver that finally lost too many hardware components to function after a lifetime of heavy use. I've heard good things about NixOS from friends, though I'm a little leery of "immutable configs". I'm not trying to be a snob here, but Ubuntu ain't the only game in town, and it sounds like a lot of people try it and decide linux just doesn't work, so I haven't recommended it to anyone in years, and I should probably start actively steering them off it
Of course, another salient possibility is that as the most famous linux distro, it's what people who've installed linux without any real intention to use it - or perhaps more charitably without understanding that unfamiliarity is a real switching cost and give up immediately - have tried
For what it's worth, I haven't had serious ACPI issues on Arch on any device for about a decade. Might be worth seeing what else is out there, if these sorts of pain points are cropping up for you a lot. Rolling-release also has the advantage of never having to fully reinstall the OS unless you really go and break something. I've had bad luck with in-distro upgrades breaking horribly whether it's debian or fedora or what have you, but rolling-release installs have lasted me... I think the longest one was 12 years? An old webserver that finally lost too many hardware components to function after a lifetime of heavy use. I've heard good things about NixOS from friends, though I'm a little leery of "immutable configs". I'm not trying to be a snob here, but Ubuntu ain't the only game in town, and it sounds like a lot of people try it and decide linux just doesn't work, so I haven't recommended it to anyone in years, and I should probably start actively steering them off it
Of course, another salient possibility is that as the most famous linux distro, it's what people who've installed linux without any real intention to use it - or perhaps more charitably without understanding that unfamiliarity is a real switching cost and give up immediately - have tried