I had a weirdo laptop (a Clevo N130-BU, I think,) and I could game with an eGPU, but I had to boot with it plugged in, and heaven help me if it came unplugged while I was in Linux. (Ubuntu... I wanna say 18.04) This was all a while ago, clearly. Anyways, I was able to use the eGPU, although it was quite fiddly.
I had a 6th gen Carbon and all the peripherals worked out of the box on Ubuntu. I never used an eGPU though.
I now have a Lenovo P14s (4th gen) and it was a bit rocky at first (power settings weren't scaling correctly, amdgpu drivers were rough at first), but with the latest kernel and drivers, everything works great. Fingerprint sensor works every time.
You might have difficulty with the fingerprint reader, everything except that was pretty easy to set up on a fairly current yoga 6
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