We do most of our dev on Windows. In my experience you can get decent timing (but always check your own timing) and it’s just easier. While Mario has a point that there is an advantage in principle to using linux, because the people are in control and we can see/change things we don’t like, in my experience Windows is currently fine. That said, we certainly are keen to improve the situation for installing on Linux, and if the situation on Windows ever gets worse (e.g. like on MacOS where there’s a mandatory 1-frame delay that can’t be turned off) then we’ll make improving Linux our absolute #1 priority
Regarding your actual issue, I don’t think the version of Ubuntu is a particularly big deal. But the version of Python certainly is - you really need Python 3.8 or 3.9. Python 3.10 on Linux has some issues with wxPython which is needed for the app to run. Now, the issue with more recent Ubuntu distributions is that they provide/expect Py3.10 and getting Python 3.8/3.9 installed has a couple of steps.
See this thread for a discussion of the install process on Ubuntu 22.14 and 22.04: