You can get the "Developer" editions with Linux pre-installed, though when I looked I couldn't find a version with more than 8GB of RAM. The Windows ones have

You can get the "Developer" editions with Linux pre-installed, though when I looked I couldn't find a version with more than 8GB of RAM. The Windows ones have more RAM and essentially the same hardware, I got a 16GB version and put Linux on it myself, all the drivers were the same and everything works perfectly. (The only caveat was a UEFI setting related to hard drive configuration and Windows Fast Boot, I forget the details but it wasn't too hard to fix.) Really happy with it overall.