[hedora]

I’ve been pretty careful to buy laptops that are new, but well-supported by Linux.

They all had better battery life than windows, and more reliable suspend/resume. Audio was generally fine.

(Not all those things were true out of the box, though.)

[nikau]

I've just moved to WSL2 - its from Microsoft so no qualms if you want to use it on a corporate laptop, and honestly there is no GUI software I want to use on Linux that isn't available on Windows anyway.

[morsch]

I'd rather deal with many of the issues the op faces than deal with Microsoft Windows in its current iteration. Fortunately, I don't have to do either.

[nikau]

Not sure what all these windows issues are - assuming you have windows pro or above, just disable auto update installation and win11 nagging via GPO.