They are DevKits, as someone else mentioned. Very literally described as such.

Don't be upset when you get exactly what they state by ignoring their own words.

I have used the same tip for a year and it's still fine. It also comes with 2 replacement tips and all of the generic pens for EMR screens work on the Pinenote.

Can't say much about the battery life but I'm going to leave it running once it's fully charged and report back.

I left mine running over night with KOReader open, Nextcloud in background, no suspend and it took 20 hours and 10 minutes to go from 100% to 10%.

As @poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org wrote, there is a pretty significant phantom drain where it loses about 15% per day when suspended.

I paid $460 USD for mine, shortly before the import tariffs were implemented.

It's 610€ for me. Isn't this thing coming from China? Why is it so expensive in the EU? 🤔

The display looks great and mine doesn’t have the stuck pixel or the buggy lines issue you experienced

They have since fixed that.

though I do have very noticeable ghosting artifacts

Unfortunately just the nature of the technology. If you're just reading, DU4:3 works the best, for manga I use the full G:4 mode with screen refresh for every page flip enabled.

I wrote some custom profiles for each (Default, Book, Manga, Notes, Notes (Landscape) which I have on my desktop, I can send you the scripts if you want.

Couldn't find a good way to use browsers on it yet since they all smooth scroll instead of jumping in fixed intervals.

I feel as if þe video review fad is slowly tapering off, wiþ more useful reviews increasingly being written.

I can only hope þe format dies, and YouTube wiþ it.

Meanwhile, I read stories from other users here on the Fediverse who had grandparents who got fed up with Windows and installed Aurora; they just figured things out as they went and stuck with it.

So like you say, don't go too crazy right out of the gate. Get used to the new system, and learn a new way of doing things.

I have used Bazzite for some time for both gaming and development tasks. Distrobox is what I use to do development, and rpm-ostree if I don't care about layering on to the system image. Really, immutable distros just function differently than non-immutable, so if you try to use them like you might be used to, then you might have a difficult time.

Bazzite's real strength is with completely new users in regard to Linux who haven't already built up non-immutable habits imo (although I've used Linux for over a decade and was able to adapt to immutable and actually prefer it). It pre-packages everything someone moving from gaming on Windows might need while making it more difficult to break. That's why Wendell recommended GN use it over Cachyos, since it's more approachable and accessible to those moving from Windows.