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I would be really surprised if Ubuntu had issues that Manjaro or Arch don't have. Debian and Ubuntu is usually pretty ahead on testing different hardware combinations. Most likely this is some hardware-specific issue and you don't own the same hardware as GP.

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No doubt Canonical tests more, but there's something about the way they configure the kernel and packages that gave me more problems over the years than most other distros. In fact, the first Ubuntu install ever, back in '06 failed for me completely, while Mandrake worked.

I do appreciate that this is subjective, I just wished Ubuntu isn't the only choice people evaluated when trying Linux.

Ubuntu has been fairly solid for me, over several laptops and almost a decade of releases.

Freezes due to graphics drivers (on Intel) is something from ~3-5 years ago, I'd say.

And let's be realistic, when people are just trying GNU/Linux (for the first time), they will go for the most popular and user-friendly distro available. Or, at least, they should.

I've been using ubuntu since the first release. I have issues with the switch unity gnome plus the odd kernel issue. Battery performance also at times has been an issue.

I stick to several year old thinkpads for hardware and LTS releases though. Mostly I just want the OS to get out of the way.

Normally it just works though.

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