I tried out a new thinkpad recently. I had heard, here and on other sites, that they're the best laptops for running linux, but I experienced a number of issues

I tried out a new thinkpad recently. I had heard, here and on other sites, that they're the best laptops for running linux, but I experienced a number of issues when trying to run recent versions of ubuntu and pop os, including: - Hotkeys, like brightness adjustment, not working on some versions - Wifi not working (I found a driver on github that I wasn't able to get working) - Really short battery life, even after fiddling with sleep mode in the bios - Choppy touchpad controls I might have had better luck with an intel model (this one was AMD), or with a slightly older model that's had more time to be tested and supported, but it definitely wasn't the "just works" experience I was hoping for