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 practice Northern Long Fist KungFu and Shaolin KungFu. I have also practiced Uechi-Ryū in the past.

I chose these styles because all have practical applications in combat and have been used for combat at one point during their existence. To me, this alone proves they’re useful to learn.

I also spar and have applied what I’ve learned to matches. So I do believe these styles are worth looking into and learning.

To bring it back to your post. Self defence is great to know wherever you live, even if you’ll never use it. Most teachers are very loud and use visuals for teaching, I don’t think you’ll have any issues.

I’ve been messing with linux on my xps tablet. It mostly works well, I just hate the onscreen keyboards right now. Maliit lacks documentation and modifier buttons, squeekboard doesn’t scale to larger screens unless you manually build a dev branch, and wvkbd doesn’t hide/respond to input boxes.

As for UI, I love plasma mobile personally. For other touch friendly UIs theres: gnome mobile, phosh, and hyprland + gesture plugin.