I can't even find a single positive comment on YouTube. Maybe there is still some hope for the games industry, when absolutely everyone is starting to reject the Gatcha/GaaS/MTX slopware.

They sadly advertise with an “AI” part, which, ew. But they seem good other than that.

That's just what AMD calls their latest laptop CPU line. I don't like the name either, but performance-wise they look really good from what I've seen.

are all of these laptops customisable in terms of OS?

I haven't bought any of these laptops so far, I just looked into them because I was considering it. That said, all of them offer various Linux distros, Windows, or no OS at all. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to install whatever you want on them.

As for security I'm really not the person to ask. The way I see it, a computer is as secure as you make it. StarLabs shipping with coreboot out of the box does seem interesting though, if you want to go full tinfoil hat :)

Tuxedo (based in Germany) are Clevos. Slimbook (based in Spain) sells Clevo and maybe Tongfang, not sure.

StarLabs assembles their own laptops in the UK, but I think their parts are still Chinese/Taiwanese because where else are you going to buy laptop parts?

Personally I would not rule out buying Tuxedo/Slimbook just because the manufacturing is in Asia. Ultimately the components for any laptop will be sourced from there anyway and at least you get support from a European company.

From PLMs GitHub:

Plasma Login is in a prototype state and is not considered ready for real-world usage.

I just tried it out anyway, because SDDM sucks. PLM no longer uses the lowest common resolution for all displays and HDR works about as well as it does in plasma (sometimes I get a black screen and have to turn the display off and on). Still better than SDDM. It also integrates with KDEs system settings so it's easy to setup.

Auto-login does not work however, so I'll be sticking with SDDM for now, but I'm looking forward to the stable release.

Steam and Heroic already block sleep while a game is running. For everything else gamemoderun can be used, which also blocks sleep. It's a nice fix but it's not as big of a deal was it may seem.

I've never used bcachefs so no help from me there.

/boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point

It's not typical, but it should still work. systemd-boot even looks for the ESP there by default among /boot and /efi
Personally I use /efi.

just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux

If I'm reading this correctly you mounted the ESP to /efi and then put the UKI in /boot/efi anyway. It needs to be on the ESP.
My /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset looks like this, if it helps. If you were to use /boot/efi for the ESP you would have to change the paths here.

# mkinitcpio preset file for the 'linux' package

#ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux"

PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')

#default_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#default_image="/boot/initramfs-linux.img"
default_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux.efi"
#default_options="--splash /usr/share/systemd/bootctl/splash-arch.bmp"

#fallback_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
#fallback_image="/boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img"
fallback_uki="/efi/EFI/Linux/arch-linux-fallback.efi"
fallback_options="-S autodetect"

its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix

I don't see the point of systemd-boot with UKIs. All it does is chain-load the EFI boot stub in the UKI anyway. I just used efibootmgr to create an entry in the UEFI which boots the UKI directly.

Not sure about Lenovo, but I would never consider an ASUS laptop after they have been found trying to scam people on warranty issues repeatedly.

Current summary of the Gamers Nexus investigation with links to related videos

Replace "an extension" with "a browser" and you can say the exact same thing. At some point you have to trust something and I have seen no evidence that uBlock Origin is doing anything nefarious so far.

No offense intended, you do you and you don't owe me any explanations, but I always find these types of post hilarious.

I want to do X. I don't want to use thing that does exactly X and is used by most people trying to do X. Refuses to elaborate.

https://codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEuropean/src/branch/main/sites

Aa far as I can tell The category files contain lists of European sites and the site files below contain either a single alternative or refer to one of the category files.