I feel like there should be a dedicated fedihelp community for stuff like this. Also, if you have any microblog account (like mastodon), try asking for help with hashtags like #fedihelp or mentioning the account @FediTips@social.growyourown.services if you don't get any answer here.
From my experience, dell has the best linux support for touch. Until Framework makes touch screens for their laptops maybe try going for dell.
Also, this is just my suggestion, research on your own as you are doing, since you know what you want best.
It doesn't even bring up the on-screen keyboard of gnome. And doesn't accept any input from the OSK. Haven't tried to see what the situation is with hardware keyboard.
I swear I have seen this "free speech instance" nonsense at least 3 or 4 times before this in the last month. All with similar combination of words. This is probably a same troll.
George Takei is active of mastodon. There are many journalists and scientists. Tons of developers. A few small celebs. Also, many people I don't want to be here are not here. That's a plus for me.
OMG yes. It is so annoying it is like someone keep hitting reply all in an email. And it is not just mastodon, *key does this too.