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How do I buy one without giving money to Microsoft?

You can do the DIY option and choose no operating system.

They're actively working on making it work well with linux: https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop

As an anecdotal data point, I installed the Fedora 35 beta on the framework laptop, and it's working very well with no real configuration necessary.

Click the DIY option, click OS: None.