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Out of curiosity, why not go for something that supports Linux out of the box? Why stock to mainstream?
Dell supports pre-installed Ubuntu on the XPS Plus configuration. You can order it with Ubuntu installed out of their webshop. They also have repos for all the drivers.
Ubuntu LTS in general ships with very out-dated software. Many software are lacking in many useful features.
Although most of this can be mitigated with virtual environment of your programming language of choice, or flatpak/snap/appimage. There are several, like libreoffice, latex, and DE, are not so easy to fix.
I am not convinced LTS is a good environment for most users.