Off thee shelf 2023 mini Pc single board computer

I don't think changing distros will help unless they have a later kernel than 6.1
NIC drivers are at the kernel level so won't change with distros as they all use kernels from  kernel.org/
Debian Trixie might solve it. I have trying thst on my todo list as is building the 6.5 kerel as using the pristine source always seems to give better RT performance than Debian
 

Many of the larger distros have patches they add to the official kernels for backports etc so there may actually be more changes than one would expect between distros.

Unlogic wrote:

I suspect LinuxCNC 2.8 users are fine as I don't think the driver bug was present in the kernel that shipped with that version of Debian.
 

The error finishing read issue was introduced into the kernel at around 5.9.
2.8 Buster was on 4.19. Bullseye was Kernel 5.10 but Linuxcnc never had a ISO for it so it was never really noticed until people startted playing with bookworm.