New college student looking for a laptop for decent gaming and programming.

Hi guys, I'll be starting college studying Computer Science next year, and I'm looking for a laptop that fits my needs. Thank you for any advice, and here's my info!

• Total budget and country of purchase: About 1000€, no more than 1100€. Will be buying from Italy.

• Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications for the money? Pick or include any that apply. Definitely don't care about 2 in 1. I'd like an in-between between battery life and best specs, but I'd lean more towards the better specs.

• How important is weight and thinness to you? Pretty important. I'll be moving around a lot between campus/dorm and wherever else, and I'll also be traveling a lot (which is why I can't build a desktop PC, sadly.) I wouln't go anal over it though, I'd rather have a decent rig than some ultra-thin, ultra-light garbage.

• Which OS do you require? Windows, Mac, Chrome OS, Linux. Windows. I'll be installing Arch Linux myself as dual boot.

• Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. N.A. on screen size. About screen specs: don't care about 4K. 1080p is enough for me, but I'd really like an IPS screen.

• Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. I'll definitely be doing some 3D game development and some occasional gaming, but nothing too extreme. I also 3D model when I feel like it, so running Maya and/or 3DS Max is a must.

• If you're gaming, do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? For gaming, the benchmark I'd set is that I'd at least like to be able to use the Dolphin emulator without any hiccups. As for anything else... I want to play MGSV at really any settings, but something like medium settings at 60fps would be great.

• Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)? Definitely a good keyboard. As for build quality, I care for my PC pretty well, but I'd at least like it if it didn't break on first drop :). No other device requirements (won't even be using touchpad that much, if not at all).

• Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion. I've seen the Acer Aspire, but I really hate its design. In general, I'm looking for something that doesn't look like the kind of monstrous RGB/Multicolored trash that MSI and Razer put out. I'd also like it if the PC had an SSD, but I'd be willing to buy one myself later (provided that the PC comes with an extra port for it)