Ironically, the laptops that do come with Linux are always the shittiest stuff like that Lenovo distro.
Basically this, it's why it has worked from that gaming side since just installing steam and running a game is now a painless process thanks to proton.
It's regional, can confirm that I never got asked for my ID since I don't live in europe or north america.
You would think, but none of these companies actually make their own dataset, they buy from third parties.
They still didn't open a command line