The Linux-Hardware.org project, based on the collected telemetry data for the year, determined that rare releases of the most popular Linux distributions and, as a result, the use of not the latest kernels create hardware compatibility problems for 13% of new users.
For example, most new Ubuntu users over the past year have been offered the Linux 5.4 kernel as part of the 20.04 release, which currently lags behind the current 5.13 kernel in terms of hardware support by more than a year and a half. Rolling distributions, including Manjaro Linux (with kernels from 5.7 to 5.13 offered during the year), show the best performance, but they lag behind the leading distributions in popularity.
Source: opennet.ru