if its anything like the original ally you can just directly boot into the bios, dont even touch windows and i think its very unlikely that they will manage to remotely update your firmware forcefully if you already put linux on it unlike the switch or ps5 where you have to buy the first edition of it in hope of jailbreaking it years later

the whole microsoft has their own silicon on the APU die is true for the original and yet on mine running bazzite i don’t think they’ve got any control over my unit

Its in the same menu

Maki Harukawa on the left, Kaede Akamatsu on the right. Both characters are from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

you can disable paging (swap) i guess apart from launching more things at the same time and letting apps know you have ram for them to cache shit (check app settings some apps do have a how much ram should we use slider like okular the kde pdf viewer) and virtualisation of multiple os’s i can’t think of much

nvidia, i swear most of the issues i experience are nvidia related in some way yeah i know using a GTX 1080 with a i7 12700k isn’t like the best idea but when given the options of use said gpu and get reasonable framerates with the games im playing (but get massive headaches when something related to the proprietary linux driver eventually breaks, and it does) or use the igpu and get unplayable framerates (or low res) or unnecessarily buy a newer gpu that isn’t that big of a jump in performance for me to justify the price I’m sticking with dealing with nvidia