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My company has similar Linux problems with the Insipron 16. Just can't get the display to work reliably. Thankfully they work great with W11. The inspiron 16 is probably the best cheap laptop I've ever used.
Weirdly, we've had zero problems with our XPS 15 and 17 either in windows or Linux but they are all recent models...9500 and later so maybe the issues have been fixed.
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TBF I've only owned T and X series Thinkpads... I don't know that everything Lenovo is good. My partner had an Ideapad which was terrible.
But the X220, X1 (various generations) and T series... all of these have been incredible. I've a 12 year old X220 which is still going strong, and that's just ridiculous. It's not my daily laptop (that's an X1 gen 8), but I do still use the X220 for debugging network things (it's got a built in ethernet socket) and as a remote console to a lot of my home and remote networking stuff. I've continued to acquire new laptops due to work, etc... so of course I use the newer models more often, but that a 12 year old laptop is still rock solid, keyboard great, storage great, speed great, still runs cool enough... this is just something else.