I had additional issues due to technical problems with the motherboard. For most people it won’t be nearly as hard. […] If you follow the steps perfectly you shouldn’t have issues.

You just described the linux experience. In 99% of the time, Linux just works. For 1% of the things, you have to apply above methodology. How is that worse than keeping on using windows?

I would switch ubuntu for debian, but that is more personal preference. As they are mostly the same architecture, there is not much of a learning curve.