Linux for laptop is intel or amd on gpu drivers. ECC is the stickler to my recollection. AMD apus don't support ECC. Xeons are usually bundled with NVIDIA card

Linux for laptop is intel or amd on gpu drivers. ECC is the stickler to my recollection. AMD apus don't support ECC. Xeons are usually bundled with NVIDIA cards, due to generally lacking on board video. The AMD RX5500M may change this https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-5500m https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/amd-radeon-rx-5500m But that won't fix ECC. Xeon is usually bundled with quadro or radeon pro. I've not heard of a radeon pro option. Barring ECC. I've got a first gen A485 2700u. Two NVMe drives, 32GB ram. With an option to go 64GB. Great Linux support. The trade off is weight. Since ryzen is not as power efficient at idle I need bigger batteries. Performance is next to an i5 8th gen u series. Ice lake is just shy of AMD apu performance last I looked. But more power efficient. I've moved on from a high performance laptop. I have an ITX build that fits into a camera case. For being a digital nomad. Then when at a coffee shop. I have a git lab instance in my home lab with CI/CD. Changes are committed automatically on save pushed and deployed to my home server. For testing code while I'm at the coffee shop. AMD and intel both haven been phenomenal for linux. I have a low profile AMD wx2100 for my portable ITX build. Perfect for non gaming. I miss Nvidia s performance edge. But not the driver mess.