Exactly this. People are happy to buy a computer which is specifically intended to run macOS, but refuse to do the same for Linux and then complain when it does

Exactly this. People are happy to buy a computer which is specifically intended to run macOS, but refuse to do the same for Linux and then complain when it doesn't work perfectly. Sure, it is super nice to have the option of running it on almost any hardware, but as you said, if you don't want to do any tinkering, you need to buy the right hardware. If you want the corporate guaranteed experience, you need to buy it from a company that offers that. Lenovo and Dell offer machines with a Linux certification, but that seems to be more of a "we think it should work" sort of situation. That is good enough for my personal use, but my next work computer is going to be from System76.