I'm currently running a Librem 13 as well. I came from my modded x230 (FHD display mod, coreboot, upgraded speakers).

Mostly it's been a great experience. Like the author I also miss the trackpoint.

Between the author and I, I think we cover most of the mainline OSes you'd see on these machines (debian and arch). I'm running Manjaro (xfce) with no issues.

In total though the Librem 13 was about $300 more expensive then other similar laptops.

I believe there's a lot value in that extra cost. The privacy and open source efforts mainly. We have to support these efforts more and more if we want to protect ourselves from the larger companies that continue to mine our data.