Late to the party, but no one sugested thinkpads with amd. I was researching laptop for me and for wery long time thinkpad A485 was on short list because:
- silent
- external battery
- easy access to components
- rugged
- all essential ports
- integrated radeon allows some light gaming

there was option of A285 but ultimately I went with....surface pro 6 i5 - for me holly grail of mobile devices is passive cooling (and 3:2 screen ratio is very close to 4:3 for old games). Asus you picked will be very hot and loud

Posting after a long time, but still looking out for a laptop.
So this new one caught my eye.
ACER Nitro 5 (2019) with AMD Ryzen
It has
Ryzen 3550h
RX560x with 4GB graphics memory
8GB RAM
1X 2.5" bay and 2X M.2 SSD slots (this is a big selling point for me)
15.6" FHD Display
Has most of the ports I would need
The 4 cell battery, according to reviews, is pretty good

SO if anyone has experience with this laptop, or the previous gen one, I am interested to know how is the Linux compatibility of the hardware?
I am a bit concerned as ACER apparently uses a software called Nitrosense for fan control and similar stuff. Also there is fancy backlighting and things. So will there be any major problem if I use Linux as the main OS on the laptop?

Thanks in advance for your help and responses.