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There are billions of possible hardware configurations and billions of use cases for an OS. No OS will ever be able to work on all of these combinations flawlessly, I'm just saying that on average you have the best chances of everything working out of the box if using Ubuntu and even if not, there are the best chances that you find help online for your problem on Ubuntu, but there are of course cases where other distros will be better suited.
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I certainly can't argue against your last point. You are almost guaranteed to find a solution to your problem on Ubuntu. Simply due to mass usage.