Does anyone have experience with using display tablets on linux (arch)? I've got an XP Pen Artist 12 2nd gen but no tablet driver has worked with it yet. I tried following every fix I could find but nothing helped. I tried using OTD
>>7909981I use wacoms and they just workSince you're on arshchs you might need to rewrite your xorg.conf to support your chink shit
>>7909981dont they have linux drivers on their official website?
>>7909981their proprietary driver works fine for me on mint
>>7909981Serious question, I know Windows is a pile of shit, but is Linux actually worth the trouble switching to? seems like every single program needs hours of troubleshooting to try to get it to work
>>7910077Even if you could fix windows within minutes of shooting at CEOs, you're not going to do it, so you should probably just fix linux by shooting at trouble for some hours
>>7910030They didn't even install on fedora, arch and cachyOS. OTD worked for my non screen tablet at least.
>>7910077Except for some minor problems and me being retarded sometimes, everything has worked pretty well for now. Been using linux since about a year, arch specifically for about 3 months and as specially on cachyOS, things just worked. Haven't had any problems with games yet since I mostly, (if even) play older games. Only problems I've had for now were signing kernel modules for secure boot when I still had windows on another SSD and said XP Pen drivers.
>>7910044Maybe I'll try mint. The only reason I'm on arch right now is that I typically like to tinker, though that's not really what I had in mind.
>>7909981I have an artist pen 12 3rd gen and the official drivers worked just fine for me, use their customer support anon, they helped me install the drivers on my steam deck which uses arch
>>7910331Did you have any issues with screen mapping or did it just work? The screen mapping was my main issue once I got it working.
>>7910077linux is just str8 up better ignore le cool hackermen and just use bazzitet.arch btw
>>7910401Not really, I just set one of the tablet's keys to "switch monitor" with the official drivers interface and then press it until the mapping is correct. My main issue was that I could only use the tablet as a perfect duplicate of my external monitor instead of its own separate screen, but I solved that by switching from x11 to wayland
>>7910077I'm a SysAdmin and I don't use Linux anymore. Ran Linux for about 2 years, Arch for about 6 months. If you can work around it, it's not so bad but if you need specific features it's a waste of time.For instance, Linux doesn't hibernate well. When I wake it from sleep, it just shows me black screens. When you ask for help to troubleshoot people will just call you retarded, gaslight you and say that the problem isn't real, or tell you to change how you work.So basically /g/. In fact, /ic/ is just /g/ for children who scribble.
>>7910077It's not terrible, but to say that you will never have to troubleshoot some stupid shitfuck nonsense would be a lie. But at this point, saying it's the ONLY thing you will ever be doing is also a lie. I've been on Linux for about a year and a half now, and I have long since acclimated to the point where I don't think of my computer as "oh, I'm running Linux" and instead it's just another computer. I browse the Internet and watch YouTube like everyone else, I pop open Steam and run games with maybe one or two routine setting changes to enable a certain compatibility layer (assuming it doesn't just run with the default), I open up Krita and draw either on my primary monitor with my screenless tablet or on my secondary screened drawing tablet, I open up Blender and export HDR and SDR versions of my art (just like I would on Windows), etc etc.It's the bullshit you know vs the bullshit you don't. It's really what it comes down to.
>XP pen Artist 12 2nd gen>no tablet driver has worked with it yet.You have got to be kidding me. I already switched my work laptop to linux a year ago. but I guess I can't switch on my desktop yet.
>>7911054If you haven't already check out OpenTabletDriver. They support a lot of niche tablets and you can submit a diagnostic of your tablet on their devices scord and most likely it will get implemented into the drivers.
>>7909981ive been struggling to get my xppen 24 pro to work on arch should i switch to something like mint?
>>7910077Only if you don't have mission critical work needed to be done on your machine.
