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paraphrasing the linked article: A little history lesson (from someone who actually bought their products).

I have one personal and 5 company managed librem 13 linux laptops. It's been a nightmare of amateur hour problems.

On two, the -/_ key only register 33% of the time it is pressed.

None of the 4 or 5 m2 SSD I tested booted consistently from the open bios. Every boot required 3 to 7 reboots until they where seen. Needless to say, they are have simple 2.5mm SSDs and no developer want them now because of the lack of RAID. To the bean counters and HR they went.

They still do not have usb3 support for epci, display, or charging. basically stuck in 2016.

The Radio/Video switches are nothing but cutting the power to the USB bundled peripherals. there's no special driver or anything else. Though still better than the majority, but far from the best with truly integrated solutions.

And support have been non-existent. And their forum used to be a bunch of people asking basic questions about their rebranded gnome, but lately it is a flood of "amateur android specialists" (adb script kiddies. thinking of so many puns now) threads on the librem5 phone... if you know the kind of content you get on xda forums, it's the same level.