Well, i have the 5290 laptop (not the tablet)(i5-8350u) for a year now. It’s great, practically pocketable, upgradable everything except the cpu (obivously), decent materials, a decent keyboard, etc. But the display is terrible.

Well, gnome exists.

Well, this was probably also anticipated with win 8 and 10, but it (sadly) didn’t happen.

There’s still win 10 ltsc iot, but I doubt it can be used in a buisness setting.

Then, some chuwi convertibles have a laptop-like keyboard, but I have never seen one in person.

Latitude 5290 has the same CPU and upgradability of a t480, but no trackpoint. Build quality is great (from my experience) and it’s under 200€ used.

Or use a mi pad 5 with linux for coding on the device. The geekbench score is comparable to a thinkpad t480. (this)