Currently I use ThinkPad x230 with coreboot. Awesome machine for daily use, plays any (that I know of) free/open source game. Can edit video too but takes a while. I do not compile code often. I wish to upgrade to USB-C charging as I travel alot. Also I want my pc to be silent or fan less (are chrome books any good ?). Obv I want to run as little proprietary firmware as possible aswell.
As for gaming / editing, I think about getting a laptop with M$ Windows “air gabbed” and NVIDIA card. But all models seem to have major flaws with cooling or design or just cost unreasonably much ($3k).
I can stick with my current setup if nothing worth it is for sale, thanks if you can give advice !
There are System76 laptops that ship with Linux out of the Box with their own Pop! OS LInux distribution, and I’ve pretty much only heard positive feedback about it.
They also ship them with Coreboot as the Bios and remove the Intel management engine, so on the firmware level I don’t know where it’s at. However, when it comes to Graphics cards, I don’t think they ship anything with Radeon cards, so you’ll likely have to use proprietary drivers. And their laptop have some decent and recent hardware.
Definitely looks like the best option for Linux laptop, just they do not have silent and usb-c charging models that I know of. So I don’t think upgrading at this moment is worth it.