Regarding Joplin: I don’t know what you mean by callouts, but it does have a plug-in system. Perhaps there is one containing what you need?

If not, and it’s not beyond your skill set, you could build it yourself.

The biggest roadblock will be whether the bootloader will allow another OS. You should be able to search xda forums for your device as a start.

Linux can be installed on ARM, no problem.

As others have mentioned, perhaps while the metaphor is weak, your spirit is strong!

My kid’s Chromebooks (I purchased for them before the school provided) reached EOL before they finished elementary school.

I installed Linux (Gentoo) so we could continue using them. When power is correctly configured, they were very cool to use as a quick tool to search for something, answer an email, write a quick document and other simple tasks. They did not work well as workstations as an old Thinkpad might.

Since they are so light, and the battery lasted forever, we would leave them on a counter, and pick them up as needed.

I feel seen.

Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I’ll give it a try.

LLM speech-to-text.

It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.

Still very cool!

reFind is superior in this use case, as it will detect and boot any EFI media, even hot plugged.

This does not support your claim.

KDE / Qt licenses

Can you point where it’s not OSS?

It’s where Linux really shines, to be honest. Those specs will be fine. Great learning opportunity for the students too.

Dirk is the current maintainer of the open source dive log software “Subsurface”. He took over from Linus.

They dive(ed?) frequently together, and are good friends.

Which Nvidia device? The 970 is currently problematic.