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Worth noting Dell, whose XPS laptops (at least) offer Ubuntu 22.04 as a configuration option.

I've had pretty good experiences with Dell and Linux, albeit I dual boot and usually get Windows from the factory.

If you have a moment — why do you dualboot? I find it too difficult to keep both environments around, especially given how high-maintenance Windows can be with blocking updates and general junk accumulation. (or, if Windows is your primary environment — how high-maintenance Linux can be, I guess)

Some windows updates fail when it doesn't recognize the bootloader. That stumped even my friends that work at MS on the OS team!

Then I had to disk repair to put the windows bootloader back, then update windows, then restore syslinux bootloader (then moved the windows out of the partition into VM image)

Makes you wonder if single-booting two laptops would have been easier.

Yeah I too was looking for Dell in the list, and for some reason didn't find it.

It's the second item from the top ;)

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