I have an HP EliteBook 850 G8 that I didn't choose, my employer chose it for me. I actually asked for a ThinkPad but they were out and I just got a HP. It's...

I have an HP EliteBook 850 G8 that I didn't choose, my employer chose it for me. I actually asked for a ThinkPad but they were out and I just got a HP. It's... OK? The keyboard isn't horrible, the touchpad is OK, it has a reasonably decent number of ports and overall it's an OK machine. For personal use, I have two laptops: A Surface Laptop Studio and an MSI GS66 gaming laptop. So far I really like the Surface's form factor and the ability to work with it as a tablet or laptop. Touchscreen, keyboard and touchpad are all great, and it's fine as a personal computer -- I went for the top of the line model but in retrospect I could've gotten by with a lower-end model. It's not quite powerful enough for a good gaming machine and more powerful than I need for everything else. Not a big fan of their "dock" or whatever, it's overpriced and doesn't even have video output. The MSI gaming machine is great as long as I don't have to use its keyboard. I have Linux and Windows on it, mostly use Linux and run Stable Diffusion on it quite happily. Takes two NVMe drives and is easy to upgrade. The keyboard is atrocious though. Mostly this isn't a problem because I use it connected to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse. But when I've tried typing on it directly I loathe the action of the keys and the spacing of the keyboard. I think they went for a "cool gamer" layout instead of something functional. If this was going to be a machine I typed on directly with any frequency I'd have sent it back. Have run Pop_OS! and Fedora on it with no issues.