I am rethinking this.
Do I really care if I am running 22.04 or 24.04? With the Ubuntu Pro/ESM support I have signed up for, it seems that this means there will continue to be updates provided for 22.04, so how much difference does the version really make to me? Not much! If I can stop worrying about that, I can get about what I really want to do, which is use this shiny new computer that I just bought.
In fact, I wonder, is the difficulty in getting oem hardware support, the very reason for the introduction of Ubuntu Pro/ESM in the first place??? Is Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu’s answer to this problem?