As far as the security comment, AWS does offer encrypting volumes and most data using a KMS key, but they still have full access to your key... and literally all the memory on all your machines.

I've just always run Linux on regular Dell and Lenovo laptops (with the exception of one MSI gaming laptop; which worked really well). I had a workmate who was all about System76. I considered them, but they always seemed to be a bit behind on some core thing I wanted at the time. Kernel/driver/hardware support has gotten good enough in Linux that a lot of stuff mostly works, or just needs a little bit of effort.

Purism is still garbage tier and I have yet to get a phone I preordered in 2019 and they've refused all requests for a refund.

Framework looks really promising. It's also not Linux first focused, which I think is a good thing for it's adoption. There is a post of someone putting the guts of one in an old Thinkpad shell. I hope it starts getting us closer to more standardized laptop parts.