Right but a secondhand thinkpad is not a laptop you find in the travel context of the thread.
(I dispute the main point, too — I spent flipping hours trying and failing to get trackpad speed right on a Surface Go in GNOME/Wayland. Ended up having to abandon that combination.)
> Surface Go
Avoid.
Lenovo only, T or P series. At least in the samples I've had, all the drivers have been in-kernel upon release of the hardware.