I'm a daily user of Pop_OS! by System76. (https://pop.system76.com/) It's developed as a desktop system for their range of computers, but you can install it on anything, as I did. It Just Works™ and I didn't have any compatibility issues with it -- as an anecdote, once I was able to connect to a Samsung printer out of the box, while my friends using Windows had to search online for drivers.
I bought a laptop from System76 with Pop_OS! installed.
After turning on wifi and running the updates, I then installed emacs, firefox, and KDE from the Pop_OS! repo, then ran the updates again.
Instead of continuing the process of "moving in", I found apt was now in an error state with what appears to be some broken circular dependencies. My immediate conclusion was that Pop_OS! is either flaky or I was unlucky enough to use their system for the first time just as they had a packaging bug that affected me.
I don't think putting out a solid distro is a trivial thing. System76 probably put in a lot of effort into their (IMHO weird) desktop environment. They also have been promoting donation subscriptions for Pop_OS! development support. Based on my experience, I wonder if they bit off more than they could chew, squandering effort on flashy things rather than doing the basics well.
