Every laptop is a linux laptop if you stay away from nvidia and get last year's hardware.

Again, no issues on Arch. People running other distros may have issues due to slower package and kernel updates.

btw

honestly since 20.04 ubuntu or so, nvidia works pretty well on linux (other than battery life on laptops which is still not good).

If all you need is a framebuffer, nvidia is fine. However I regularly run into 3d applications that either only run (either at all, or without significant artifacts) with nouveau or only run with the nvidia binary drivers. I reboot fairly regularly just to switch between the two.

huh, that hasn't been my experience at all. I don't play a ton of demanding games, but pretty much everything I have played (on 1440p monitor, RTX 2060) is capable of hitting framecaps.

Maybe my card is to old? 1050Ti

I'd expect that to be pretty good at 1080p. No idea what's going wrong.

1200p, but I don't run anything demanding. Some games lock-up with binary drivers, others crash nouveau and compositing window-managers have different artifiacts with either oen.

The advantage with XPS is not the price, but the premium quality.

In my opinion XPS is about size and to an extent performance, but not better (build) quality. In my experience both the Latitude and Precision series have had fewer hardware issues despite being more prevalent, where only part of the explanation is that XPS-es are used more often by people who also travel more.

I think we have different definitions of build quality. When I said build quality I meant it as a premium Device feel: quality materials, good keyboard and trackpad, looks nice.

From the context it sounds like your definition of build quality is reliability and durability, which I would be surprised to hear their business grade laptops are better at.