You could try using usb tethering to provide internet for the installation.

Is there something like obtainium with the ability to build from source?

It recommends obviously wrong choices like Tails

What surprised me with debain, it comes as a very minimal installation, so you will have to set up stuff like sudo yourself.

It’s great for beginners and has many guides online.

I mostly work in qtile in a fullscreen layout or a diagonal split between two windows. My hotkeys are super+d for rofi in dmenu mode and super+q for a shutdown menu also in rofi.

The framework 16 is a gaming laptop. The framework 13 should be enough for your needs.

An assassin will be assigned to the assassins to even the chances.

I partially agree. While there are a lot of useless upsells there still are supported standards and features to considder.

Install paru and use it to install mongodb from the aur.

First time I hear of trizen. How does it compare to yay or paru?

What trustworthy options do you have for acquiring hardware?

Have you tried looking for used thinkpads?

A used framework 13 might be something for you