Not necessarily. Ubuntu LTS kernel is often very far behind and you have to rely on Canonical to backport drivers for you.
e.g. Vulkan on my 5700 XT didn't work (despite AMD being very good at writing kernel drivers!) because the Ubuntu kernel was so far behind. Switching to an up-to-date vanilla kernel and all my problems went away...
e.g. Vulkan on my 5700 XT didn't work (despite AMD being very good at writing kernel drivers!) because the Ubuntu kernel was so far behind. Switching to an up-to-date vanilla kernel and all my problems went away...