Currently I use ThinkPad x230 with coreboot. Awesome machine for daily use, plays any (that I know of) free/open source game. Can edit video too but takes a while. I do not compile code often. I wish to upgrade to USB-C charging as I travel alot. Also I want my pc to be silent or fan less (are chrome books any good ?). Obv I want to run as little proprietary firmware as possible aswell.
As for gaming / editing, I think about getting a laptop with M$ Windows “air gabbed” and NVIDIA card. But all models seem to have major flaws with cooling or design or just cost unreasonably much ($3k).
I can stick with my current setup if nothing worth it is for sale, thanks if you can give advice !
I thought the Pinebook Pro just charges through USB-C from the dock port.
No, you can use any regular usb-c charger with it. It also has a barrel jack port and comes with a (tiny) charger for it, and apparently it charges slightly faster through the latter, but I don’t notice much difference. Neither option supports something like quick-charge, so once your battery is empty, it will take half a day or so to recharge. Using it while recharging is possible, but if you run any CPU heavy workloads during that time you battery will basically not charge much.