I'm pretty sure you can just install the Linux distro on any laptop and probably on Apple Silicon Macs soon too. I wish! There are a lot of laptops where Linux

I'm pretty sure you can just install the Linux distro on any laptop and probably on Apple Silicon Macs soon too. I wish! There are a lot of laptops where Linux works well right out of the box -- Thinkpads, particularly, though new releases usually take a while before the bugs get ironed out. But problems are common, particularly in high power usage and suspend not working correctly, and some wifi chips not playing nice or requiring installation of out-of-tree drivers from source. It can be a bit of a minefield. And mainstream distros will likely never run on new Apple systems, unless Apple has a change of heart and starts maintaining Linux drivers for all of their hardware. (Spoiler: pigs will fly first.) It was challenging enough when they were running x86, dealing with Apple's other undocumented non-standard components and weird firmware. On ARM? Don't count on it. Based on your comments I think you're not in the target market for the HP Dev One, and that's just fine.