I just bought Lenovo Thinkpad p52s. Bigger battery and all physical ports (HDMI, ethernet) including USB-C charging. I'm running Pop_OS (built on Ubuntu), and

I just bought Lenovo Thinkpad p52s. Bigger battery and all physical ports (HDMI, ethernet) including USB-C charging. I'm running Pop_OS (built on Ubuntu), and it's been my daily driver for 6 months. I was using macOS for 5 years (mbp 2012) and then Lubuntu for a bit. This setup has been as smooth as a macbook. Installation was smoooooooth. Pop_Os distro has built-in Nvidia drivers, so wifi, bluetooth, nvidia card worked out of the box. The p52s also has a SIM card slot, which is the only thing I need to mess with. Usability is comparable to macOS. It has the cmd+space shortcut built in. It has multiple workspaces with keyboard shortcuts for moving between them as well as moving windows to different spaces. Carbon X1 would run the same, but has less physical ports -- depends on your use case. Can vouch for this setup though.