alt Hacker News> "a Windows laptop you can convert into a Linux machine, or a Linux machine that tries very hard not to act like one"
You can buy computers with nothing installed on them if you want, and computer is computer (for the most part), so you can run whatever you want on it. I think the linux space is generally too fragmented into all the different distros to offer a "linux laptop", because people will wonder why it's not shipping with their favourite flavour of penguin
> You can buy computers with nothing installed on them if you want
There's nothing wrong with that approach, but this is exactly the opposite of what I am saying.
To clarify, when you buy a computer with nothing on it, you are actually buying a windows computer that had windows removed or opted-out of. It was not built with Linux in mind.