I know what you mean. Although I’m not active on that forum, I have posted before, so I’m not completely new. For the same reason you mention I don’t want to post too much there about these projects. I just put out a little hook. Everybody here probably knows I’m no marketer, so I’m trying to be careful. 
I’m unsure of myself and so I asked what you all thought about my post. I got some likes, so apparently it was ok.
Here is my reply to David from before.
To be honest I haven’t used the laptop much. My Librem 15 is mainly for travel. I don’t really like laptops and avoid them if I can. Generally they just feel small and fiddly to me, but this one at least feels like well maid no-nonsense quality hardware.
And here is a thread about the phone.
I got frustrated with Windows way back and made a complete switch to Linux about 15 years ago or so. I think I used Debian or Redhat and then Ubuntu. But then Ubuntu started changing the GUI around and, being the conservative type, I went with Mint that is also Ubuntu-based. I’m no expert, but I think Mint might be the friendliest distro out there. It’s very much plug and play, i.e. very far from fiddly Windows. My box just works, i.e. it obeys me.
Microsoft have always tried to make dual-booting or switching difficult. One of their latest moves was the “secure boot” scheme. They also have their own way of setting the system time and messing with the BIOS. Librems use Coreboot instead of a proprietary BIOS, which was important to me. I never used a Chromebook but, if you had problems, my guess is it was Windows on the other partition that was making your life difficult. Nowadays you can even play many of the big games on Linux. I don’t use Wine. Nvidia isn’t a Linux-friendly company, but I think the graphics stuff still works well.