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Powering up my new mobo!
Ok, blinky lights on the memory bus are back in fashion... but where are the switches to load a word into core memory? 
Testing the new motherboard and swapping it into my old chassis: 2 hours.
Fixing the damn UEFI vars to get #ArchLinux to boot again: 3 hours and counting 
Looks like the MSI firmware is deleting the GRUB boot entries that I create with efibootmgr...
I tried creating an entry from the built-in UEFI Shell, and it also got deleted.
What's going on?!?
Other MSI users are complaining about this same behavior:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1874820#p1874820
Ok, simply renaming grub to EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI made it appear as a boot menu option without even creating an EFI boot entry for it!
I found a tip in the awesome Arch Wki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Default/fallback_boot_path
#ArchLinux
lol, MSI... your UEFI firmware sucks even more than the others I've seen!
On the upside, this new machine (i7-12700F 4.9GHz DDR5 5600) builds wezterm from sources in 2m05s.
For comparison, my Thinkpad X1 (i7-10710U @ 4.7 GHz) takes 8m56s.
Updating the BIOS...
Wait, wasn't it supposed to be called "firmware" nowadays? More confusion due to fucking UEFI 
Anyway, I like that you can just put the new image on a usb stick nowadays. No DOS floppy, no Windows utility...
(prime acc @codewiz I am 97% of the way to ditching my Dell Latitude e6420 because I see no encouragement from Dell for updating my 2012 machine with a BIOS update: I am running Linux Mint.
My battery is down to 17% post-upgrads and I see no online tutorials. Did you see any useful tutorial?