Probably a non-issue for this use case then. A relatively cheap Lenovo for programming, would not be too old to have a decent wifi card already in it. Even the pretty old ones I got for my kids have decent wifi cards, some even 4g. No issues at all with running Linux.
I love it. The kids cheap laptops with Ubuntu are now fully fledged gaming laptops! And a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and the cheap tablet is also a gaming computer.
Edit: also wireguard to connect from outside the house.
I was very interested in this. Installed it, and set it up to use my preferred auth server (also selfhosted). It worked just great!
But! Then I wanted to install the add-on in my firefox browser. And it doesn't work when using only and oauth server :(
Will probably not use this much without the extension
Recently got a used X270 for my kid, for school. It came with windows 11, but I put Ubuntu Budgie on it.
It cost me about 220 USD in my currency.
Very nice computer.
I'm guessing 'Murica