Apple owns the hardware and MS managed to get HW vendors to adjust everything to Windows.

IMHO, owning the Hardware or agreeing on one existing HW among devs is a good approach. These come to mind:

Dell XPS notebooks, which specifically support Ubuntu or

https://system76.com/ They build or assemble hardware specifically for their Linux distribution Pop! OS

No personal experience with neither, but a colleague uses XPS with OpenSuse and talks about a seamstress experience.