Frustrated With Linux Stability (Mostly Audio)

The lack of stability in fresh installations of very popular distros is really frustrating to me.

I don't have a very esoteric system configuration. The relevant bits are Ryzen 5700x + RX6600 + Motu M6 audio interface (but I know that audio interface support on Linux can sometimes be a hit or miss, so I also have access to Behringer 202HD, Focusrite and Audient interfaces, none of which works noticeably better than the other). I also severely dislike Microsoft and while I have to stick with Windows for work, I'm reasonably motivated to make a switch to Linux as my daily driver, and I'm willing to suffer a bit, but I need my system to be reasonably stable.

My use case is very basic. Here are the relevant bits when it comes to some features of a distro I'd use:

- Standard office/entertainment PC stuff (creation of various documents listening to music, watching videos).

- Some, somewhat rare gaming (still working my way through Elden Ring DLC).

- Dual monitor setup, one of which has a high refresh rate.

- Audio production. Now, this used to be a big deal, back when I used computers and DAWs for production. I don't anymore, I produce music in external devices, so I don't even need a low latency setup (though it would be cool to be able to fall back on it, if I ever need to produce music on a PC). I'd just use a DAW for mixing/mastering and potentially feeding my audio through while streaming.

So far I tried Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Fedora and Fedora Jam. All of them had small, relevant issues basically out of the box. I've spent the most time on Ubuntu Studio, and it frustrated me to no end. Even at high buffer size and low DSP/CPU load, I was just getting Xruns no matter what I did. Installing the LTS and using X11 offered the most stable performance, but it still wasn't free of Xruns. And that's important because even if a Xrun doesn't seem to cause any issues at the moment, I'd sometimes find myself listening to recorded audio and hearing that parts of it were corrupted (pops, clicks dropouts). Fedora was a bit better, but I was immediately getting some desktop environment related bugs on startup, on a fresh installation.

I'd really want to use Linux as my daily driver, but I'm getting older, I don't have much time to hunt bugs, and research ways I can optimize audio, because an audio on a distro SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED for audio production just doesn't work...

And yeah, I know this last paragraph is subjective and basically just a rant with no substance, but given how much I'm growing to dislike the big tech, I really wish Linux managed to clear a very low bar of "working out of the box" which for me, it doesn't.

For those of you who do audio on Linux and experience no Xruns, which God are you praying to?

EDIT:
In my frustration I forgot to mention that the relatively stable (but still ultimately unstable) Ubuntu Studio LTS on X11 setup, made daily use extremely unenjoyable (choppy animations on high refresh rate monitor) and that's why I ultimately ditched it. I don't do a lot of gaming, but that part was fine on Linux though... only on Wayland and version of Plasma that supported Variable Refresh Rate. Otherwise, the gaming wasn't very enjoyable.