[vacri]

There are very few laptops that don't come with Windows or OSX preinstalled. They are out there (like Chromebooks) but there's not a huge selection of them, and you have to hunt to find them.

[zanny]

https://www.system76.com/

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

There are a few others. Its not really hunt, you just have to use a Linux laptop brand or find an OEM that sells bare notebooks.

[zurn]

Depends where you are. Last summer I ordered a laptop from Germany and there was plenty of choice, at least Lenovo and Acer machines were widely available without Windows (variably shipping with FreeDOS, or a console-only Linux env).

Saved a tidy sum compared to shopping locally. Just pay attention to KB layout.

[andrewflnr]

Also, I don't get the impression Chromebooks are much easier to install your own linux distro on.

[zanny]

Chrome OS uses Gentoo as its upstream, if it runs ChromeOS it will almost certainly run any Linux distro with at least the same kernel version.