I am aware that for GPUs specifically, the driver situation on Linux is pretty good (minus the Nvidia/Wayland friction). But a laptop is more than just a GPU an

I am aware that for GPUs specifically, the driver situation on Linux is pretty good (minus the Nvidia/Wayland friction). But a laptop is more than just a GPU and a CPU. When I was shopping around a few years ago, the fingerprint reader even on Dell's Linux-focused developer laptops was dead. I liked the Razer Blade, but many components didn't support Linux; looks like the trackpad on some models still doesn't work. If "any vendor" actively supported Linux, we wouldn't need companies like Framework or system76 that pick compatible components. I'm not saying that Apple is particularly helpful, just that they're hardly alone in not caring about Linux.