>subpar support for a webcam, energy saving, suspend/resume, the trackpad, brightness/volume controls
Honestly this sounds exactly like my experience with linux on any laptop, including three thinkpads.
Linux is a great desktop and server OS but the UX of a laptop actually demands a certain level of polish/fit-and-finish that linux desktop environments just don't have, otherwise it's constantly getting in your way.
Suprisely to me even, all these work work fine on Debian. Debian needed me to slide load the intel wireless drivers (a disappointing aspect I grant) but otherwise everything just worked right out of the box. Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Generation.
Honestly this sounds exactly like my experience with linux on any laptop, including three thinkpads.
Linux is a great desktop and server OS but the UX of a laptop actually demands a certain level of polish/fit-and-finish that linux desktop environments just don't have, otherwise it's constantly getting in your way.