If you like the MBP but want to use GNU/Linux, you don’t need to install it on the MBP’s bare metal. You can use it in a virtual machine. I use my home desktop

If you like the MBP but want to use GNU/Linux, you don’t need to install it on the MBP’s bare metal. You can use it in a virtual machine. I use my home desktop as a gaming machine (running Windows) and as a coding machine running FreeBSD in a VM and it works great. You probably don’t even need to set up X-Windows on the GNU/Linux guest. You can just run it headless and ssh in from a terminal on the macOS host.