I would like an inexpensive Linux laptop
This is something I've been researching for years now, believe it or not. The problem is that whether I use a search function (either site-specific or Internet-wide) or simply ask the question on a forum the results returned do not meet my criteria!
What are those criteria? Simple (yet apparently impossible):
1). Inexpensive. Most of the suggestions I've found indicate other people operate on a completely different economic scale than I do. Considering that there are new laptops under $300 CDN I don't wish to pay more for the few and simple computing things I do. Also, I hate the idea of paying for the world's worst OS (Windows11) only to wipe its useless bloated coding off the hard drive.
2). I need a 15-16 inch screen of high resolution because frankly my eyesight is crap.
3). It has to be able to have Linux loaded on to it. This one is tricky, because the Internet is full of "how to do it" bullshit apparently written by people who have not encountered the Deal With The Devil contract wherein the BIOS is locked to Windows and no amount of altering the settings actually changes that. Yep: tell it to "boot from usb" and it just ignores your alterations and resets. I thought I was going mad until I found numerous other victims had come across this same evil. Why tell people you can boot from usb if you have no intention of actually allowing them to do so? Microsoft can fry in hell.
Now I've done this before; bought a cheap Acer laptop, changed the BIOS to allow USB boot, hooked it up with Mint, and converted it over. Unfortunately that perfectly adequate machine burned up with everything else I owned and now I'm down to using a cheap Chromebook (aka 'Crimebook' aka 'Crumbbook' aka 'Crapbook'). Don't tell me to install Linux on that because I have tried and it doesn't work. Moreover, the thing is so bad that I avoid updates (by leaving it on all the time) because they tend to brick it (I've 'powerwashed' it once and don't care to go through that again).
It's pretty obvious that there is a corporate plan to obsolesce older hardware to force sales of new because no one is buying them otherwise. It's also obvious the end-user control of both hardware and software is a thing of the past. This should be a crime, but guess who has the money? And as we all know the 'golden rule' says "he who has the gold makes the rules".
After starting out with an Apple II+ I can only observe that personal computing stopped getting better about 10 years ago and has been headed steadily downhill ever since. Worse machines, worse software, but oh those corporate profits!