Qubes OS hardware support, while still far from perfect, is vastly better than it was ten years ago.

Joanna Rutkowska's understandable preference for older kernels had its advantages, but the current team is much more likely to ship somewhat newer kernels and I've been surprised by what hardware 4.3 has worked well on.

Beyond that, I'm currently running a kernel from late Feb/early Mar (6.19.5).

Driver support can still be an issue, and a Wi-Fi card that doesn't play nice with Linux in general is doing to be no different on Qubes OS.