[Solved] Can anyone recommend to me a cheapish, current model notebook that loves Linux?

[handy]

Congratulations!

Thanks Richard, I'd buy Bender a beer if we go & meet at the pub.

[Stevo]

The "inxi -G" command will probably show that you're getting gallium software rendering instead of hardware for your eighth-gen Intel graphics, but updating the Mesa packages from stretch-backports, and possibly the latest kernel you can install, should fix that up.

It'll be using the kernel's modesetting driver by default, and if you want to switch to the i915-"intel" driver, I've found even the latest Debian version buggy, but I could rebuild the newer version in our experimental repo for our test repo...no bugs so far with that one. I found that the modesetting driver has annoying "tearing" when I scroll in Firefox.

[Richard]

@Handy, we'd both thank you. :)