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just installed bazzite and after switching to x11 (one button thing) its the first district to have no screen tearing, no stutter
though this is a very gaming focused district, so maybe not for you
its derived from universal blue so maybe check that out
Ubuntu and its derivatives are quite solid. My favorite ispopOsS which has grown to have a nice identity for itself.
I use fedora for the nice OOTB experience, but if there's issues with parts of the hardware - I try Ubuntu. And if it works, I just install it.
Life's too short to deal with hardware blobs.
For me it is Fedora
I think your best bet for this is one of the spinoffs of enterprise Linux: fedora or openSUSE. both are very solid ootb, and have starting configurations that are generally good.
The microos or silverblue variants respectively are really promising as well, but still have some caveats.
Fedora is not an enterprise Linux spinoff, it is an upstream to an enterprise Linux distribution. Neither of those support proprietary video codecs and other potentially patent encumbered pieces out of the box, with some work for proprietary drivers too.
Fedora atomic GNOME or KDE.
You don't mess with the system at all. If you look for something specific, you may find something here https://universal-blue.org/images/ .
linux mint
Thirded. It just works. Even deployed to elderly relatives with wifi printers with no issues.
Seconded. I've been using it for years because it just works, but if I want to try to ~~break shit~~ do things myself I can.
I've put kubuntu on a couple of machines now and I'm pretty happy with it.
Ubuntu
I got annoyed with snaps, I can't recommend it because removing snaps is that opposite of not having to mess with it out of the box