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I've thrown Linux on every laptop I've ever owned, and a couple of family members laptops as well and the past 15 years and haven't encountered 1/10th of the issues they you have.
Complaining about broken suspend is funny because Microsoft basically killed S3 sleep in favour of the battery sucking S0. If anything it works better in Linux because you won't open up your laptop to find that Windows Update fucking ran in the background while it was sitting closed in your backpack and rebooted.
I think your issue might be more of an AMD issue. They have a long history of buggy mobile hardware even on Windows.
I mean hell I threw Fedora on to my Intel MacBook Pro and the only real annoyance I had was not being able to reliably disable the SPDIF light in the 3.5mm jack.
I'm currently using the non-linux version of the XPS 13 2-in-1 and my OS experience is actually the opposite of your friends. I can install any Linux ISO without issue, but the standard Win 11 ISO refuses to work because it can't detect any storage drives.
As far as daily driving Linux on it, the only things that don't work are the fingerprint reader and webcam. It's a bit of a piss off given that non-touchscreen version uses similar spec hardware that does support it but it doesn't really affect daily use.