While there’s truth in your words, there are alternatives that require little effort. Even a IRC channel would have been better.
Discord is not only a terrible bad application, it’s the equivalent of writing posts on medium. If and when they decide to gatekeep your content, there’s nothing you can do.
What does this have to do with the post?
I’d make the back and bottoms intake and exhaust on the side with that config.
Or intake on the side and exhaust in the back and bottoms.
Or mouth the side ones on top as exhaust if possible.
And the words were likely the response of him tripping as he was most likely on painkillers (opioids probably) because he would have otherwise been in a lot of pain.
I have a tuxedo machine. Their support is great. The “pre installed os is bad” people have no idea what they are talking about. TuxedoOS is a Kubuntu slightly modified to include their branding (wallpapers, etc) and a couple of drivers, plus their tuxedo-center app (which you can remove if you want).
Nothing will stop you from installing any other os and if you want to come back to the original OS, you can use their WebFAI and reinstall the way they did it at the factory (or pick another os from the list).
Their hardware is fine, I have a system76 machine as well and they are comparable in every aspect, considering all of them use “generic” hardware.
I’d personally go for it if it works for you.
Good luck!