Not too long ago I installed Mint onto a laptop that turned out to have a network card by Broadcom, which doesn’t have Linux support, so that didn’t work. I’m going to upgrade my currently Windows PC to Mint at the end of Win10 support in October, and I want to be sure I don’t have any hardware that is incompatible with Linux. Which manufacturers are obstinate like that?
You can get broadcom to work, it means adding the missing driver.
For example in NixOS its adding a line in the hardware/config file then running a rebuild.
For Ubuntu there appears some steps spelled out lower in this thread https://askubuntu.com/questions/55868/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers
Some distros publish their known working hardware lists https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Hardware