Made by GloriousEggroll who also is responsible for protonGE a great derivative of the Steam Proton compatibility layer for playing windows games on Linux
Development and maintaining it is done by a single dude, so if something happens to him, that’s the project done, this is not in the Pros section.
the instructions here are from building Gentoo locally using and Arch LiveISO
FOR WHEN YOU WANT TO PUT MORE EFFORT IN
These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.
I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.
That’s a Markdown editor with a separate drawing tool, not a notes app focused on handwriting. You can’t annotate a PDF or typed text or edit a drawing after it’s been created.
Until they make a proper upgrade to my surface 10, I will have no other choice but to stay on the windows 10 version.
clears throat
Surface Linux Kernel. Surface 10 supported.
Some distros of Linux that have SLK rolled in:
Nobara:
BlissOS:
Gentoo Surface:
These were the really easy to find options. There’s absolutely going to be more that have SLK rolled in…but that’s not actually necessary, as the SLK git has easy to follow instructions on rolling it into whatever distro might interest you. The whole Linux universe is your oyster.
I have a Surface Pro 4, and I run Nobara, works great, better than windows. There are some hardware things that don’t 100% work on some surface devices. Here is the Supported device list and Features Matrix. Looks like the SP10 doesn’t like to hibernate, and doesn’t have working cameras atm.
Doesn’t really solve my OneNote problem, as I run it on no fewer than 7 macOS, windows, iOS, and android devices.
Joplin has apps for all UNIX-likes(Mac, Win and Lin,) iOS(phone and pad variants), and Android. It can import Evernote and OneNote. It’s built to E2EE notes to cloud services, currently supporting: Joplin Cloud, Nextcloud, S3, WebDAV, Dropbox, OneDrive or the local file system.
If you’d like to fully tell M$ to get fucked…I can recommend self hosting NextCloud.
Not incredibly difficult to set up, I’m fairly fluent in Linux systems…but by no means a “Wizard”, and my self hosting knowledge is extremely minimal.
There’s other options out there, but Joplin has all the apps…
Do any of those focus primarily on handwriting for input and support macOS, android, and windows for offline input?
Yep!
See point #2. Hand written notes can be kept as is, one thing that’s not mentioned in that link is that Joplin can also use OCR to change handwriting to typed.
That’s a Markdown editor with a separate drawing tool, not a notes app focused on handwriting. You can’t annotate a PDF or typed text or edit a drawing after it’s been created.
Not at all comparable.