Dear gods, the comments in the linked Hacker News thread too. Was happy enough to avoid Ubuntu for snaps, now I’m even more relieved

Great news, been too long since this was a thing

A lot of this could be achieved by turning off notifications/muting them, turning off fitness tracking, deleting social media accounts, etc whilst retaining the device.

Bizarre, I wouldn’t expect issues with Linux on that hardware config. Perhaps try something with newer packages, I have a pretty similar setup like yours except for the CPU (7800X3D) with no issues on EndeavourOS. Fwiw, I have the Powercolor Reaper 9070XT which runs hot and loud out of the box but is pretty good now with a slight undervolt and tweaked fan curve