I could be that jackass that says “well your first mistake was buying x when you should have bought y.” I’d be correct, but it wouldn’t be helpful to anyone actually trying to deal with this kind of problem.

I’m still “new” to linux myself, despite attempting to use it several times over the years, so I don’t have any actually useful advice. I can however say that linux mint (after getting it installed and updated and upgraded and updated again), runs flawlessly on modern AMD hardware. The package manager even has a gui!