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Ideally it would be a laptop/distro pairing that is officially supported by the laptop vendor. For better or worse, I think most often the distro is Ubuntu or Red Hat.
Iโve never used for-fee subscription distros like Ubuntu Pro or RHE, but if someone had the money to burn and a viable use case, I wouldnโt stop them.
RHEL (and I'm assuming Ubuntu Pro) is really more for like your company's servers than an end user's desktop. There's really no reason to go that route unless you really need to get security patches for a super long time but won't just upgrade I guess
Agreed, these would be very niche for a consumer laptop. I have seen them available, though, specifically Ubuntu Pro for my Lenovo Thinkpad. Long-term driver support is the only reason I can imagine.
RHEL is great for servers, but not an awesome experience for a user workstation, IMO