Quite some time that I’ve seen something so stupid

It’s even absolutely not true, that Linux is last. They just don’t know about the less used OS’ on desktop

What a braindead take…

Well, the Laptop is still not released. Not sure what I can say more about it :⁠-⁠\

Anyone have some experience with StarLabs?

Ordered a StarFighter like more than half a year ago and am losing confidence in the company…

As long as the laptop boots, you should be able to switch to a TTY console, where you have a complete shell interface to your system after logging in (in said TTY console). So, being greeted with a login screen or something is a win here - but you’re very vague in your report.

The GUI is only just a program and has nothing to do with your boot options in BIOS or bootloader (like grub).

Using CTRL-ALT-[F1-9/0] you can switch between your virtual consoles and on only one of them your GUI is running.
You can use any other one to change anything on the system from CLI.
You should also be able to stop the current GUI/X11 Session and directly start the window manager you wish - temporarily to fix your system, if you’re not confident in the CLI.

I’m using borg with vorta as a front-end, which seems to work quite well, with different possible backup targets

Just wait for the next stage as a libertarian socialist, without a leading communist party, because we can take care of us ourselves - it’s usually called anarchy (which doesn’t mean no social norms, just self-organisation without leadership)

Did you try Aurora store (interface to Google play store, trying to hide your installs) or the more Linux like repository manager f-droid?

I’m sporting 8-10h on my Tuxedo Pulse 15 (Gen 1)

At least with AMD my runtime was always pretty good under Linux. Since some years at least. Was on Intel before and always had worse battery life with Linux - most probably because of the additional NVidia GPU, that didn’t play nicely with Linux power management

Thanks!
I have this bug with Firefox and Thunderbird on my laptop, but not the workstation. Already re-installed and was equally puzzled as I didn’t saw any load either