I love my fine-tuned Asus laptop with Arch. It boots under 10 seconds. It's 5 years old Intel, runs browser with loads of tabs, electron junk and still performs smoothly.
What it can't do is handle hi-res monitors at my workplace :blobsweats:. FullHD looks bad ok 4k or 3,5k screen, trust me.
Time to upgrade, but what to get? Every AMD laptop I like comes with soldered 16GB RAM. What kind of dumb trend is that?