

You might want to consider gaming on Linux. For that, neither might be a good idea, unless you want to play older games on an older ThinkPad (which a lot of Linux users like to use… a lot). If you want recommendations for Linux-specialized companies, I’d take a look at System76.
I think with Framework, you have the AMD ST and/or Intel ME, which you can’t disable. Since System76 has Intel CPUs almost exclusively, they’re Corebooted and have ME disabled.