Ohh how are those laptops like compared to my hp 14 cm5l? Can you change the hardware on those? If they have better hardware than my laptop but can't change the hardware I'm not too into them, i saw one laptop that supposedly lets you change the hardware, the alienware area 51m, something like that, it's expensive tbh, but well I'd love a graphics intensive laptop where you can change the hardware, unlike my laptop, yeah i know i can get a desktop pc for that, but you can't carry the pc around and bring it wherever you want or use it without electric power for more than a few minutes,

This is why i ended up loving laptops, even without Internet you can just play real games, professionally edit stuff with adobe suite, maya, blender or gimp, write stories or type comfortably, watch videos in a big screen and other stuff. Also unlike android, Linux and windows don't go around killing apps you're using for no reason in the computer, in a smartphone it happens even after the phone screen sleeps or change the app for a second or send it to the background also for a second, even the software keyboard gets killed.

The only downside to laptops is that you have to go through hoops to change the hardware, considering it even let's you do that in the first place, so I'd highly value a laptop with the modification friendliness of a desktop pc with a similar power, it's like having the best of both mobile and pc worlds, a powerful customizable pc you can bring with you anywhere but you can do real gaming and work on it. Btw i like my smartphone (specially after enabling root in that damned android os), i just prefer an actual customizable computer i can have with me anytime and that lets me do things phones don't and are actually stable and trustworthy.

So anyway, what's librebooting? Is it a secureboot alternative? Or something like grub or burg? Or does it replaces the bios/uefi? Because what else could boot before windows or Linux even starts?

As for the OS, I'm a-ok with close soured software and OSs tbh, i quite loved windows 10 apps and features too, the only turn off was their crappy ptsd inducing forced updates bs, hence i got rid of it, feels good not being harassed by them on Linux or breaking my configuration or installed software and having no one forcing me to install anything and not threatening me with dropping support in a few weeks for something i just installed a few months ago is a bliss. I'm not looking for a fully open source OS though, not for my daily use computers, it's ok to practice on a virtual machine and learn new abilities, but for my real computer i need an OS that can run flawlessly anything i want and need without going through many hoops and a system with as much support as possible that i can fully rely on without troubleshooting it constantly and well, basically an OS meant for daily professional or personal use that doesn't cause me ptsd (windows 10 home and pro) or can't run something (Linux OS that won't let me install something i need or useful drivers).

The only real downside to the newb friendly highly supported Linux distros is that they force you certain desktop environments or greeters or other things like that, sometimes to the point of not even letting you configure almost anything there (like ubuntu or deepin or elementary), other than that, the more support one OS has and the more software it can run, the better.

Anyway I'd gladly install fully open source OSs too, but as i said, on a VM just as a learning tool, as a hobby, something i can break without having to worry about losing configurations or personal files where i don't have to even care if a specific package is available or not because said OS wouldn't be my main OS.

And yeah hopefully i can learn more, it's pretty satisfying working in Linux, even tho i don't want to experiment with my main OS heh. It'd be very nice to have variety on my grub bootloader and not have just 2 or 3 entries... Let's say i could just get a 5tb laptop hdd, it'd be perfect for the job.