Since Windows is going to be irrelevant anyway (run everything in a browser, stream everything 'heavy', now the local OS is just a 'viewer'), and most 'connecte

Since Windows is going to be irrelevant anyway (run everything in a browser, stream everything 'heavy', now the local OS is just a 'viewer'), and most 'connected' users on the planet are using a phone and whole generations grow up only ever using a phone for media/games/productivity and never touching a laptop/pc, all this will do is make Windows a niche. Coreboot might not be perfect, but until there is enough powerful hardware (like ARM and RISC-V that isn't just multi-core but also has enough single-threaded performance) it's not like you're going to be able to run free and libre firmware on reasonable hardware (and no, pre-CSME hardware and pre-FSP hardware is not reasonable, it's just old at this point). I hope POWER and ARM and later on RISC-V are getting powerful enough to not have to trust a CSME or FSP in the long run, but I doubt it. Even just having a PAVP DRM is something that is pushed by various corporate legal departments so hard that all the hardware that ends up in consumer land is going to be hobbled one way or another. I'm afraid we'll end up in a world where you can get that libre and free stack on high performance hardware, but won't get access to all the IP, including IP cores for embedded FPGAs and IP like streaming media including audio, video and games.