This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.
I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.
Unrecognized/unsupported hardware is another thing but I always could finish the install and at least reach the console login prompt.
I've never used bleeding edge equipment though, euther second hand or brand new but proven tech.