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That's not true.
I've also had a lot of success on most hardware, but the worst device I ever touched was a 2016 Macbook (one of the last with normal ports) and that thing was a total mess.
Arch: Video, no sound. Debian: Sound, no video. Ubuntu: Everything works, reboot, nothing works.
Probably heavily related to hardware, but still, very inconsistent. I was never able to find the actual issue after weeks.
The final somewhat working configuration was Debian+Liquorix for the video firmware.
So no, it's not guaranteed.
What do you expect from a Mac, a company whose entire ethos is proprietarism?
Nice catch! π Using one of the most proprietary devices out there in the market as an example.
Well, that may be the case, but you made the claim that using a beginner-friendly distro solves all problems and I gave an anecdotal example of that not being the case. Macbooks have a substantial markt share, like it or not, and are subject to planned hardware obsolescense, so people will try to install Linux at some point.
Besides of all, this was not purely a hardware issue. Else, no configuration would have worked out. There were differences in the default configs of the distributions that caused this erratic behavior and it was not just a pulseaudio/pipewire thing.