In my experience, these laptops have some kind of Windows license embedded into their motherboard, so you can freely reinstall Windows from scratch. So there's

In my experience, these laptops have some kind of Windows license embedded into their motherboard, so you can freely reinstall Windows from scratch. So there's no cost-advantage to using Linux, and Windows furthermore just has better sleep behavior + GPU integration than Linux. If I need Linux, I either spin up a VM somewhere for me to VPN / SSH into, or use VMs inside of the laptop, or even use Ubuntu on Windows (which is "good enough" for many commmand-line tasks in my experience. Ex: Shift-right click to open the advanced commands for a directory, select "Open in Ubuntu Terminal" and go from there).