I've also been a ThinkPad user since the IBM days, but my most recent work laptop was a Dell XPS15. It has been working fine for me. For my home laptop, I had

I've also been a ThinkPad user since the IBM days, but my most recent work laptop was a Dell XPS15. It has been working fine for me. For my home laptop, I had been using, for around the last 4 years, an HP Chrome 13 g1 Chromebook (6Y75), which I really loved. Got one for my son for last Christmas for $120 landed. 16GB RAM, 32GB SSD, 2560x1440 display. The original one I got for $550, it was refurbed on woot. List price was more over a grand, but I wasn't prepared to spend that on the experiment. For the longest time it didn't support the Linux containers, but that got remedied last year. I was mostly using it for the browser and using a Chrome extension to SSH into my work machines. With the Linux containers, it's a full Linux environment, though with some restrictions. However, over it's life it lived very well up to the "just works" idea that I got it initially to try out. OS updates are super fast (they just show up and when you reboot next they are there, <30 seconds). If you need a full laptop running Linux, you're going to just need to get a laptop. I'd probably consider another Dell, it has worked fine. My last Thinkpad had some weird battery issues, and because of it's slim config it had two small batteries and I wasn't quite ready to have work buy $300+ of batteries for a problem I couldn't reliably reproduce. But, I'd definitely consider a Chromebook with Linux containers for lighter duty work.