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Have you tried Mate desktop?

What about Synaptic Graphical Package manager as sometimes it's not obvious what you need via apt directly?

The 11 is slightly more attractive for this idea as it has the SD Card slot.

Also I'd only be interested in using a real mouse and keyboard (USB preferred to BT or other wireless).

Can the Linux access USB mass storage natively? This was the fatal flaw to Crostini Linux on ChromeOS.


Certainly my Raspberry Pi4B running Linux (Maybe Ubuntu + Mate) has much less storage and RAM than the Nxtpaper 11, and less RAM but simmilar storage to the Nxtpaper 14. It has 2G RAM and 512G SD Card. Firefox is worst on it, but it does run LO Writer, Calibre and Firefox at the same time.

Mate has the dpi setting (Appearance, Fonts) and I leave hidpi mode disabled on my 16″ QHD and 23″ 4K screens on Linux Mint. It's ages since I ran XFCE, KDE etc. Current Gnome and KDE use a lot more resource than Mate.

I use Jota+ for notes (onscreen or external keyboard) and Nebo on Android. I think a 14″ screen is a little small for Linux, though I can use an 11″ one that's not even HD, but prefer plugging in the 16″ QHD screen to that laptop (ex-Chromebook).