Since I recently switched completely from windows to linux as my daily driver, I figured that when I eventually have to buy another drawing tablet it’d be great if their drivers and anything inbetween would work well with linux (the one I have right now is a wacom, pretty sure their stuff is proprietary).
So, considering the roots of Krita, I figured maybe I could get some advice on the matter? I haven’t heard of any other brands out there that support linux and aren’t severely unknown at the same time. (I was hoping Huion would be an alternative, but their stuff seems to be windows+mac only…)
Linux distributions have drivers for wacom provided by default. So it just works. The drivers are made by community and are free software. They are not provided by wacom company, so they are not officially supported. I think only one wacom engineer helps in creating them and that too unofficially (I am not sure). So rest assured that the wacom and huion (digimend project) will give you foss drivers for the hardware.
There is a big chance that wacom hardware will work better than other brands but any known brand will be working out of the box unless it is too new.
I mean, yeah. But I would kind of feel a bit better if I could support a company that believes in linux as well, if they even exist.
I suppose wacom has got that big of a share in the market heh
There is currently no FOSS graphics tablet brands. All hardware is proprietary and if there’s FOSS drivers they are provided by the community, not the manufacturer. And no manufacturer has native drivers for Linux. I remember Wacom once had an own Linux driver for a while many many moon’s ago but it was shittier than the community driver.
I think XP-pen has driver for linux but they are proprietary - Source Post by @Deevad . I don’t know if they are official since their India website doesn’t list linux on the spec sheet
I guess companies don’t have any interest in supporting Linux because the market share ia so small. We can only hope for the Steam Deck to kick some proprietary butt.
The closest I can think of is the recently announced PineNote. But there is far too little details out at this point and like all things early adopter, expect issues. Not to mention, you’d probably want to confirm the functionality you want will be there.
Generally, you are better off going with what everyone else uses.
It’s really not a problem, though - Wacom tablets work fine on Linux. As a matter of fact, I switched to Linux Mint because I just couldn’t get my Cintiq to work properly on Windows…
Since I am also interested in this topic for personal reasons, I have searched all the support pages of the (ex-)manufacturers of graphics tablets mentioned to me by my trusted search engine for information on drivers for Linux (Ainol, Aiptek, Amazon, Gaomon, Genius, Huion, IGERESS, Intey, KURIO, Lexibook, Odys, Perixx, Trust, Ugee, Vtech, Wacom, XP-Pen (some manufacturers seem to no longer exist)). There are only two companies that offer linux drivers for their graphics tablets!
The company Ugee offers Linux drivers exclusively for their model M708 for the following distributions: Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch, Debian, elementary OS, Mint, ezgo Linux, Pop!_OSan, Centos, Fedora, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mageia (and of course for Windows and Mac).
And XP-PEN offers linux drivers for very many models, I didn’t search the whole support section because there are just too many models.
But, provided some self-initiative / own effort, it is obviously possible to run much more graphics tablets under Linux. ->->
As for Wacom, the driver may be unofficial, but it seems like they do get documentation on new products even ahead of official product release.
It seems that Huion did sponsor Nikolai a while ago to support the bulk of their tablets, and they’re more generic in setup than XP-Pen’s, but it seems newer tablets are only partially supported again.
Because of the topic, I only searched the support pages and partly the manuals for references to drivers for Linux, I didn’t look for possible “intertwining” or daughter companies, but it’s good to know, presumably their drivers will be interchangeable.
You mean >>> In effect, it emulates the sensation of being able to draw using the tips, edges, and sides of your pen or paintbrush.
Yes it works, and I use it,. As I said all is working without installing the drivers and software. Well without installing the software the buttons are not in there function, but I don’t wont and use this bottoms on the left and right side of the tablet screen. I prefer the this actions on the keyboard.
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