it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.
what distro(s) did you try?
From what i gathered it doesn’t matter what distro is it, it’s just not compatible.
it matters. different distros will have different versions of everything, and whatever compatibility problem you had with your CPU (or maybe GPU, since that’s more common and you seem to not remember much about it) might not exist in a different version of the kernel or something similar.