I wrote a bash script that handles everything for me, from setting up the base operating system, from installing packages, to configuring them. The script can configure my laptop, my wife's laptop, my media centre, and our Android phones, although on the phone's case, you cannot do nearly enough with adb.

Once it is done, it saves the generated credentials to my 1Password account, restarts my computer, update firmware if needed, and we are ready to go. People love to crap on bash, but meh, it never let me down.

I just use Debian’s installer, and I preseed it with all of my OS preferences (e.g. installed package list, apt config to turn off recommends and suggests, sysctl settings, adding unstable to apt).

Then I log in, add my auth essentials, git clone my home directory, and grab whatever else I need to get work done.

It takes about 30 minutes with most hardware, and a good network connection.

Microsoft also offer an mdm solution like jamf. I'm not sure if there something like that for Linux. If you are keeping to a single os though, you can make yourself a list or find a bundle that contains most of what you need. Highly depends on the use case.