@jeffcliff @raccoon @Anonsfw

He'd get nothing but TTY given the absolutely proprietary and crippled GPU. So instead I'd suggest consider getting hardware that isn't crippled and works with Linux-libre, then swap the kernel to Linux-libre. Preferably a distro more organized than Arch, such as Gentoo, pacman has tendency to install proprietary software without warning and will reinstall it often between upgrades after you remove it.