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I'm one of the few whose laptop is about 10 years old so it needs replacing. Most likely a new laptop will be preloaded with windows 11. Do they sell laptops pre-loaded with Linux?
Depending on your budget, there's the Framework laptops.
Edit: I want to add... What I did, was go to an opshop, get a laptop there, and wipe it for Linux. I got a decent laptop at a decent price, saved a little on ewaste for the world, helped a local opshop make a little money, and not contributed to any corpo greed.
What's a opshop?
Opportunity Shop. A thrift or consignment shop.
At the lower end of the budget you could consider libreboot - it's a one person band who ships refurbished Lenovo thinkpads with Linux pre-installed