If you use some very old, very new, very peculiar, and especially branded by the seller hardware, try finding out what exactly that hardware is and search for issues.
Nowadays hardware seems to work out of the box, sometimes better than in paid OS, but there could still be surprises. I once had a fun time trying to get the internet dongle branded by ISP to work, luckily it was not my single source of the internet and I was able to identify what dongle it really was and how to fix the issue with it on Linux