I keep meaning to add my recent (not good, but ends well) experience.
I've been using Linux/Ubunut/Xubuntu as my daily driver since JUNE 2010. Reinstalled the OS as newer Long Term Support versions were released, generally every two years. Used that first machine from 2010-2014, replaced it in 2014, and used that up machine up to DEC2021. So I've used Ubuntu/Xubuntu on several machines and through several upgrades. I also installed it on a few other machines for friends, and I've played with a few of the other distributions. So I have some level of experience and rarely had any signification issues. Crashes were really rare, I normally went for weeks/months just sleeping it, and mostly only would reboot so it could update a new kernel.
So when I bought a new laptop in DEC2021, and installed Xubuntu on it, I figured it would all go well. Sort of. But it crashed on me after a few days. OK, maybe just needs some updates. But it kept crashing, and I couldn't figure it out (though I'm not good at troubleshooting this stuff, partly because I've had so few issues!). I didn't want to take the time to research it, I ended up just shutting it down each night, and that kept the crashes to a minimum. It had also just been doing weird stuff, like pull down menus and scrolling might sometimes look sort of pixelated for an instant. I swear that some youtube videos would stutter if I drummed along on the desk - but it has an SSD, so it wouldn't be a hard drive skipping, and I couldn't track down any loose connections. Frustrating.
By the time I got serious about figuring this out, I realized that the 22.04 LTS was out, so I decided to just reinstall. I did that on my previous machine first to test it out, and get that set up and tweaked to my liking, so I could quickly convert my new machine with minimal time used to get it tweaked ( I'm *very* particular about how my panels and preferences are set up).
Bottom line, that install went well, I got it all tweaked and backed up, and it's been rock solid. No weirdness, no stuttering youtube, no crashes, no video artifacts. All's well that ends well.
This is my first machine with SSD. The biggest difference is that I keep an insane number of browser windows/tabs open, and within a day or so I've consumed all the memory and I start swapping out to disk. With swap on the HDD, the machine would just grind to a halt, just painful. But I could just quit the browser (sometimes that was even difficult to get the menu down, or to get it to respond to CNTRL-Q), and that would bring it back. I'd do a swap-off-swap-on, restart the browser, restore the session, and I'd be back in business.
But with the SSD now, even when I go out to swap, I don't even notice any slowdown (though there must be some, SSD is still slower than RAM). Lately, I haven't even bothered restarting the browser, I haven't seen more than ~ 3 GB out to swap, and it seems to run just fine.
So I have no idea whey my install of 20.04 was so messed up on this machine (an ASUS Zenbook Flip 15), and probably a re-install would have fixed it, but 22.04 has been good from day one.
-ERD50