I don't get this either. I picked up a cheap Samsung Galaxy laptop with Manjaro a while ago to replace my broken mac book pro until I can get that replaced (getting the new 14" pro for work).
The Samsung is fine but the screen is very mediocre in comparison. The same dreadful 1080p screen as world + dog insists on these days. Gnome makes it more cramped by insisting on a top bar thingy. I'd love to have a much higher resolution and brighter screen. 16:9 is just way to claustrophobic. And why do window managers insist on this silly top bar these days? That just eats into already limited space. Currently using Gnome and of course the one extension for that that fixes that (auto hide the damn thing), promptly broke when I updated Gnome.
Writing this on my good old imac 5K; the original one from 2014. Now that's a nice screen. My 2017 15" macbook pro had the infamously shitty keyboard, which actually ended breaking the very nice retina screen by virtue of a loose key that inserted itself in between the keyboard and the screen when I closed it. So something that should not be falling apart actually fell apart and did maximum damage. Absolutely disgraceful. I'm glad they ditched that design.
The Samsung at a quarter of the price manages a nice keyboard (with numeric keys even), a passable touchpad (multi touch but mechanical click sadly) and even a nice aluminium cover. If it weren't for the screen, I'd call it a superior deal. About as fast, same amount of ssd/memory, and it runs a lot cooler (i5 with xe graphics). Also, no thermal throttling because it just does not overheat. But at this price, I'm not complaining. This laptop with a better screen would be an awesome deal. Somebody needs to start doing this. 16:10, 4K would be what I'd spend money on.