I mean installing linux, not WSL. I can install linux without ever thinking about a MS account on most windows laptops.

Apple restricts their iDevice computers to only run iOS, with no option to install linux.

Microsoft _could_ require that lenovo or dell lock down secureboot such that linux cannot be installed, but they don't (not to mention microsoft surface pros can run linux), so apple is clearly doing more to restrict my freedom with their devices than microsoft is with theirs.