Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller takes the Fedora Linux 39 pre-release for a spin on the new Fedora Slimbook laptop, a powerful laptop by the Spanish man...
Not sure where you heard that. Each distro is highly tailored to its own composition of features and purposes. Some are very lean and locked into specific kernel modules, and some others go for the widest possible hardware support.
The combination of hardware greatly matters with any Linux distro, mostly because many hardware manufacturers are not contributing upstream kernel modules for their products, so sometimes support for newer hardware lags behind until the OSS community get them written and included.
Not sure where you heard that. Each distro is highly tailored to its own composition of features and purposes. Some are very lean and locked into specific kernel modules, and some others go for the widest possible hardware support.
The combination of hardware greatly matters with any Linux distro, mostly because many hardware manufacturers are not contributing upstream kernel modules for their products, so sometimes support for newer hardware lags behind until the OSS community get them written and included.