I know there are more privacy oriented companies in general, like Purism or System76, but I’m currently torn between Dell and Lenovo because they are the only two manufacturers that make good laptop/tablet hybrids (which I need for university) and whose devices are reasonably Linux friendly.

Of these, Lenovo is a Chinese company while Dell is an American company, both countries are pretty big on surveillance, but I legit don’t know how much these factor into it if I install Linux, though manufacturer-provided Linux drivers and hardware backdoors are still concerns. There is also their histories, Levovo had that Superfish scandal while I wouldn’t be surprised if Dell did something similar. Looking at the full pictures of these two companies, which do you think is better for privacy of I installed Linux on a laptop/tablet hybrid I bought from them?