Locked bootloaders and proprietary components is what holds us back with alternative projects. In that sense Purism is giving us gold here.
I’m nervous though because hardware projects can fail so easily. Shipping and iterating on hardware isn’t the same as shipping software. In my opinion it just has to feel a little more “done” than this.
Let's get the big stuff out of the way first and then continue working with Gnome to introduce a long press, etc.
I'm no expert, but this device is a full-fledged computer, not something with a locked-down bootloader. I imagine people smarter than me could install whatever OS they want to on this device.