Having linux phone support is huge, I wouldn’t have thought that would be offered. I don’t think you can even get windows phone support from most manufacturers. That is a good point with hardware support, I have mostly used thinkpads which are known to have good linux support and even then there can be weird annoying issues. I could imagine there’s more that could go wrong with a random asus/lenovo gaming laptop.

I’d imagine it’s also nice to be able to see a review and know things like real world battery life beforehand, instead of just taking a gamble and not knowing how X windows laptop will perform. Thanks for taking the time to reply!