I think the summary of this laptop would have been entirely different had the author gotten one with the nvidia gpu. As a user of that machine, the inability to

I think the summary of this laptop would have been entirely different had the author gotten one with the nvidia gpu. As a user of that machine, the inability to disable the nvidia gpu and drive external monitors is IMHO a deal breaker (the firmware only allows one to disable the iGPU too). That is because its only recently that nouveau has stabilized sufficiently that it tends to work in the common cases on that platform. If your not running a bleeding edge distro/kernel getting random monitors connected via the onboard HDMI or TB3/TB4 docks are pretty much out of the question. Even then, its hit/miss with the latest 5.17+ kernels. The problem are so numerous that they aren't worth going over, but the end result is that for most people the only way to get it working (say with a couple monitors plugged into the TB4 dock) is to use the proprietary nvidia drivers. Which wouldn't be so bad, but that also means not having secure boot, and hibernate/standby/etc will also have issues. Bottom line, for linux unless you _REALLY_ need the nvidia get it without.