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My thinkpad model officially supports linux, so there is no problem there. It is also much cheaper than any of those brands, and it's also available from the regular stores.
Officially? Got a link?
At least to my understanding. My model is the T14 Gen 1 (AMD). But I would recommend checking newer models.
A few points that indicates this:
It's possible to order it with linux preinstalled:
Ubuntu 20.04 certification: https://ubuntu.com/certified/202006-27980
RHEL 8.3 certification: https://catalog.redhat.com/hardware/detail/71625
There's a "Linux Certification" page (whatever that means): https://support.lenovo.com/au/en/solutions/pd500492
The BIOS software comes with linux instructions. Though I just use whatever is available with fwupd, which is a CLI application but has GUI support through Gnome with gnome-firmware.
More info about linux support here, under "Notebooks and Laptops": www.lenovo.com/linux
A million edits later: I got confused by what the product ID was but I think I finally figured it out.