I want to take it as a tool for reading/writing/studying and super basic browsing. My phone just broke, chat control just got approved and I’m sick of proprietary shit: I decided I’m not gonna buy anything which doesn’t hold free software anymore.

I love e-ink and I love Linux, but how usable is the pinenote with Linux? How hard is the install process? Can an average Linux user/self hoster use it daily? How’s battery? Couldn’t find many reviews online…

  • Axolotl
    21·
    1 day ago

    I notice that on the website they wrote

    The first batch of the PineNote will be great to write software for, but not great to write notes on. Wait for a later batch with better preinstalled software if you just want to use the device as an e-reader, e-note, or your everyday computing device.

    So i’d wait

    • dontblinkOPEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      I think the second batch is already out, called “community edition”

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        6·
        22 hours ago

        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.