My younger self wouldn't believe what I'm about to say, but I can't deal with hardware problems or any of that crap anymoreApropos of nothing much more than old people mumbling to each other about things, last week I bought a working, new PC (not peripherals or monitors), rather than assemble it myself from components bought separately from eBay for the first time in twenty years (well, 20 years ago I was using eSwap rather than eBay). Much the same as you; I'm just tired of putting it together and making sure to buy hardware that was all going to work together and then sorting out the drivers and all that sort of thing.
So I went to a pick-your-parts-and-we-assemble site, and bought a shiny new system with a Z370 chipset and a shiny new CoffeeLake processor. The chap I spoke to couldn't guarantee it would run a Linux, but he said he'd install Ubuntu on it himself and check it ran, before doing the usual Win install on it and sending it out. No worries, thought I. I'll swiftly turn that into a dual-boot system (which itself turned out to be a pain; this secure boot stuff sure can be awkward).
It turns out that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS doesn't come with a kernel recent enough to fully drive the Z370 and associated CPU inbuilt graphics, so I have to muck around getting hardware working anyway by bringing it forwards a few kernels, figure out how to add the relevent intel driver support to the kernel myself, buy a new graphics card and install it (no, I wanted to stop fiddling around with the hardware!)... or, as my older wiser self has decided, just keep using the old machine for graphically demanding Linux work and wait for 18.04 with kernel 4.15
It's been so long since I owned hardware made in the last six months that I'd completely forgotten about kernel support. I've been so happy for so many years that the kernel supports really old hardware, I forgot completely about the other end of the spectrum.