Lifelong Mac user here, enjoyed the thread on what distros other hexbears use. I'm looking to preserve privacy a bit more by moving away from a walled garden. I'd like to move to using a linux distro at home, but am curious about the hardware to use. (Should add here that I'm a software engineer...my code isn't that hardware intensive but I mean I have to run an IDE so that can burn a lot of cycles.) Something I really like about AppleSi is the battery life + performance...it feels really unappealing to buy a clunky intel or amd laptop and get worse battery life. Any suggestions for hardware to look for? (I'd prefer to buy something second hand.)
If you don't mind the soldered hardware of apple silicon you can easily buy a second hand m1 macbook and install Asahi Linux on it for Linux ARM (the only thing it lacks rn is microphone support + usb-c displays).
Otherwise if you're willing to buy new you can find a laptop on Tuxedo Computers or System76 to buy (all amd64 unfortunately) which guarantees hardware support. The current laptop I'm using is a AMD Lenovo Yoga 6 13alc6 which has been surprisingly really good since it has a gigantic battery that regularly nets me 7-8 hour battery life.