Please tell me where is it because I will buy it instantly, and I’m only half kidding.
I don’t see how making linux available on possibly the currently available best laptop hardware any different to the previous decades of hacking a working wifi driver into the kernel. It was always an uphill battle, and we should be thankful for those who take up the hard work!
System76? Star Labs? Purism? HP Dev One?
https://system76.com/laptops-ultraportables https://system76.com/laptops-powerful
The only exception is the Bonobo, but it comes with a discrete GPU, so its battery life + weight are going to suck. Also, its keyboard is off center.
Most of the star labs machines have low resolution displays, but I can find nothing wrong with this one. If you choose AMD, a reasonable config is $2600, which is comparable to Apple. However, they are only building 10,000 units, and taking preorders, so it might be unobtainable:
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
The purism offering seems OK except that it is a 10th generation intel, and those were extremely bad, even by recent intel standards. Maybe they'll get an AMD refresh out the door with the same ergonomics.
The HP has an off-centered keyboard and trackpad and a 1080p display.
So, of those four vendors, there's one model that's vaguely competitive, but it's a limited production run pre-order.
It has the worst LCD panel I've seen in many years. It's not the resolution just poor contrast and poor color accuracy. It pains me to see it.
They went on sale recently, I bought one, and shortly afterwards (a few months ago) they stopped selling them.