Bought a 9 incher for server because I sucked at remoting in.

Fairly delicate but it was like 40 dollars. It is serviceable and serves the need. Am able to complete simple tasks via the touch screen. It kinda spazzes out with multi selecting/ touch but again 40 dollars.

Cords are fairly obtrusive but never bugged me. Solved by getting on that’s mini hdmi or c like the other poster mentioned.

Can turn it off with a little switch in the back which it’s mostly off. No issue on power up. Quicker than my dells honestly

I realize this is the dumbest setup but it works 🤷

Ah yes, the Portable Monitor - the Pornitor

I have this one from aliexpress with touch and I use it with cheap surface-like tablet (Chuwi HI10 MAX) and sometimes with Windows 10 desktop or Samsung Dex. It works with one usb-c cable or with mini-hdmi and power cable, colour rendering is acceptable, view angles are great. Unfortunately, although touch works great on desktop I can’t configure it to work on linux tablet. As far as I know, it’s impossible(?) to have two proper touch screens with Wayland.

I have a non-touch 1080p one I got for work, 80€, brand is Arzopa. Works fine, uses USBC for power and video which is quite cool since it’s a single cable, it has 2 usbc ports, I guess if you have a lower power output on your PC’s port you can add a power brick, they’re also both functional so if one breaks you still have the other one. It also has a mini HDMI port.
It came with three cables: usbc-usbc, usbc-usbc, miniHDMI-HDMI, all three good quality.
It has folder case but carrying it in my backpack damaged it anyway, I have a couple bright spots, but they’re rarely visibile.

My boss literally just handed me the one in you pic op. I guess the client didn’t like it.

I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet but I have a 10" one that is super useful especially if the computer does USBC video out

I have used two of these - one that’s 1080p which I’ve used for years, and one that’s 1440p that broke after a short time (but that was my fault).

I don’t really use them as touch screens. I once tried with my then-work-Macbook, but it was mapped to the wrong screen, so I stopped. Since then I’ve been using it exclusively as a screen.

The colors aren’t perfect, but otherwise it’s absolutely acceptable quality - not much worse than a 5-10 year old monitor IMO. I’m driving it through Micro USB & HDMI. Be aware that somehow every couple weeks I have to continuously unplug and replug the HDMI for the monitor to recognize the signal, don’t know why.

This was probably not very helpful, sorry! If there are any specific tests you’d like me to do, I’ll gladly do them. I bought mine at a fair and have never found it online, so you won’t be able to buy it, but there’s probably much better ones available now.

I’ve used a non-touch DisplayLink USB monitor before. You might run into issues with getting it to work properly based on your OS. DisplayLink and Debian were not friends, and took a lot of messing around with drivers and other apps to get it to work. I can’t speak for other OSs though

I was looking into those but settled for Xreal AR glasses to use as a monitor, they aren’t amazing but good enough for the price + make it very portable and private

I had a small one like 1024x600, it was powered by USB-C (that carries the touchscreen signal) and it was mini-HDMI. It worked first try in Windows or Linux, nothing special to do, just plug 2 cables. It had stereo speakers too, a rocker switch on the side to set volume, brightness, etc with a menu like TV.

Seems like these could be a good display/control panel for Home Assistant.

I am also interested in any experiences, especially regarding the computers you can attach to these small displays. I often see RPi as an option, but I heared about RocketChip, too. What are the best platforms to drive these displays?