[dkatz23238]

Get him another laptop, preferably Dell (just because I have great experience with them) so he can install Ubuntu on it and have a linux dev machine. This way he can develop software for linux servers (such as a web app or data science tool) without resorting to Linux subsystem for linux and all the related shenanigans.

[akerl_]

Buying a tech person a laptop that they didn't specifically ask for feels like it's in the same category as buying a pan or knife for a chef.

[notemaker]

Just make sure it doesn't have an Nvidia GPU. Always a gamble with on laptops