I use a T460 as my daily in the living room.

Mine has an internal battery as well as a removable, large removable is a beast, literally lasts me all day and this machine is like 2017 or so. Backlit.keyboard. not sure they all have it but mine has a sim card slot and wan card built.in.

BIOS has TPM and all that so its easy to secure. Also handles virtual machines well. People having issues probably don’t set the BIOS options correctly. Efi works. Passes all the requirements for w11 if thats your jam. The machine is solid.

I run fedora 39 with sway/hyperland/KDE options. Installed from ‘fedora anything’ image was a breeze.

Resuming from standby isn’t an issue on fedora or arch but it was on debian. If you have any issues, you can send me a PM. The resume from standby issue on Debian was the only thing I never solved reliably.

I think the only real hindrance these days lack of usb3.0. So installing from USB is alright the once, but use network for transfers not usb sticks after that.

Oh has ddr3, but those sticks are cheap so you can throw in dual 8gb sodimms for less than 50quid/Euros. I’m sure it’ll take 32gb (dual 16gbs) but I haven’t bothered. I’m running 1600mhz. Also have a 1tB ssd slotted in for under 100.