In the need for a new laptop, and not had to buy one for close to a decade and the usual sites I'd use appear to conflate 'capable of supporting 32GB of memory' with 'has 32GB or more' which just lands me with a pile of steroid-enhanced silicon gaming lappys when I want a development machine I can cart around to clients when necessary. In short, looking for something that will support 32GB memory or more and will preferably support having Linux as the host OS with Windows VMs. Also something I won't spend a month removing crap from (hi Lenovo!) would be nice... Any suggestions? Any brands to avoid?
The Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575-33BM I just got seems okay, aside from having Windows 10, but to be fair I haven't used it much yet. It only comes with 4 GB RAM, but it's upgradable to 32 GB.
I'd shop for memory and see what reviewers put it in or check manufacturers' websites for compatible laptops/notebooks.
If you're wanting to run Linux on it, I'd suggest going to one of the Linux forums, like Linux Questions and asking there. Some laptops, IIRC, won't let you run Linux at all, because of the way Windows 10 works.
Figured I was going to have to deal with UEFI for a linuxy lappy. @Captain X - the Acer looks a good call.