Does anyone know if Gazelle has a serial port of debug port? Is it possible to debug the open firmware?

My 2013 MacBook pro is showing it's age and I am shopping around for a laptop. I've been curious about system76's for a while but have been put off a few times by reports of the cases feeling a bit flimsy. I know some of these reports are older though.

The galago caught my eye recently because of the aluminum case, but I have been unable to find much info on this aspect. Can anyone here report on how sturdy this laptop is?

I know it won't be as solid as my old MacBook, which I am convinced could be used as railgun slug, but will it handle the occasional accident well?

Currently, my boot sequence shows both SSD drives passing examination on boot. Then I get a black screen with a non blinking cursor in the upper left corner. The drive light shows no activity at that point. Waiting does nothing. If I attempt to boot from a thumb drive I can see the boot sequence on the screen, and then the black screen. It is almost as if the graphics loading fails.

Any insight, questions, solutions would be great.

So I switched from Pop to Mate desktop and now firefox cant be found anywhere (even in search) but can only be opened using pop shop. Also, the start page switched to Linux Google search page. Any help will be appreciated.