I’m just hoping rockchip gets better kernel support. They are way better positioned on the CxB scale.

Choose whatever laptop you like, and do a quick search on the model for incompatibilities. If there’s something critical or long-term, like a very specific hardware module not working well without its proprietary driver, consider changing, but most of the time, Linux will just work.

For distro, PopOS is good. It doesn’t come with a bunch of bloatware, but it is also not barebones. Mint is also a great choice.

Or spend a lot of time reverse engineering the game and fixing shit, and completely losing interest in playing once the game is running perfectly.