The Fairphone team has tried to help with mainline Linux support: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_(Gen._6)_(fairphone-fp6)

Ah dual booting with Windows can cause some issues, like with Bitlocker, Fast Boot stopping WiFi from working in Linux, or a rogue update causing Grub to fail.

Is Google “much loathed”? It’s thanks to Google that the world’s largest browser engine and operating system are both open source. Yes we can list bad things they’ve done but they’ve also done a lot of good.

It’s been fine for me

You’re more likely to get a price like that in CEX or Back market, with the added bonus that it’s ethical to reuse second hand.

I’m okay with the camera on the 6, but no it’s not as good as a Pixel, nor does it open and take pictures as quickly.

That’s weird. Ubuntu has two tracks, the standard that gets updated every six months and the LTS track that updates every two years. I think the developers recommend the LTS versions, and it’s the version I see that tends to get better corporate support. But even on LTS you can find some oddities sometimes I suppose.

What distro are you using? This seems bizarre and the sort of thing you see on a less stable rolling release.

If it has an AMD GPU you can just install it now, no waiting. But it’s not good at much more than just playing games, if you want a more general purpose machine I’d install something mainstream like Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora.

Not sure Servo will ever be usable. Is it still in active development?