Framework 16?
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Have you checked out system76? Between them and Dell it's easier to find builds that work great on Linux out of the box.
I looked and they look like they may work for me.
Oh cool, I'm looking at getting a legion too. Thinking of moving soon and it will come in handy. If you get one, please share your thoughts about it.
And yeah if you get a non-gaming laptop just look out for whether or not the build is limiting the amount of power the GPU can use and if it has a mux switch. I'm not sure on all the details of those things but with gaming laptops you don't have to worry about that stuff, whereas on studio /creator laptops you do before purchasing if your intent is to play games.
I have a legion that I used for some development. It's not terrible. Keyboard is worse than thonkpad but not that much worse. I use an external keyboard anyway. I set it up to use only the discrete GPU as I don't really take it out and about and setting up the automatic switching is a little painful. Doesn't bend where it shouldn't for the most part, thermals are OK.
The new framework has an amd gpu in them which would be nice for linux