1. Find a laptop you like
2. Go to https://libreboot.org/docs/install/#laptops-intel-x86
3. See that it’s not on the list
4. GOTO 1, 5 times
5. Start to notice what manufacturers have most laptops on the list.
6. Find the most recent model of laptop from that manufacturer.

Why not just stick to what we’ve always been doing?

1. wget something.tar.gz
2. tar something.tar.gz
3. man tar
4. tar xzf something.tar.gz
5. cd something
6. ls -al
7. ./config.sh
8. chmod +x config.sh
9. ./config.sh
10. make config
11. Try to figure out where to get some obscure dependency, with the right version number. Discover that the last depency was hosted on the dev’s website that the dev self-hosted when it went belly up 5 years ago. Finally find the lib on some weird site with a TLD you could have sworn wasn’t even in latin characters.
12. make config
13. make
14. Go for coffee
15. make install
16. SU root
17. make install

Ok, go on then, tell the class what underfull hbox is. And no googling!

Not being allowed to remove an app has lead about two people to switch from windows in the last 10000years.