I own the Kobo Libra H2O and the Boox Air 2, both are amazing for different reasons.

Kobo is small and portable, fantastic for reading in bed.

Boox Air 2 has pen support and runs android. Fantastic for note taking, large PDF files, and so. It is a bit big at 7in screen, pretty much a tablet.

I use hyprland with KDE as my fall back.

My hyprland config is 95% stable but some apps give me a hard time, so I’ll just run them in KDE.

I find KDE just works. With a baby, things need to work more often than not.

Android Auto works fine for me and google camera also works fine.

I remember 2014 being pretty easy to install Linux. Windows 7 and 10 were also pretty easy then.