doesn’t ship fully assembled laptops without Windows (only the “DIY” edition you must assemble yourself can ship without Windows)
just now (April 2022, over two years late) finally put up a Linux compatibility page which currently describes Ubuntu 21.10 as "🤔 medium difficulty"
doesn’t have a free software BIOS or EC firmware
Meanwhile companies like Purism, System76, and Starlabs are shipping modern laptops with various distros preinstalled, never shipping windows, shipping coreboot, and (in the case of the first two, at least, and especially the first) funding the development of free software.