Question for artistically-inclined folks, especially #macOS users:
Any recommendations for non-#Wacom drawing tablets?
With a little searching, it looks like #Huion or #XPPen are the most commonly mentioned competitors. Any thoughts, pro or con?
Background: I'm not actually any good at drawing, but I've been using Wacom #Intuos pen tablets for years as my primary "mouse". I find a pen tablet much more comfortable than a mouse, and though I don't draw, photo editing is much easier with a pen tablet. (Pen tablet only, no built-in screen necessary.)
However, while Wacom's hardware is good, their macOS driver support has been and continues to be _atrocious_. It is always weeks after a new macOS release comes out before their drivers are declared ready, and even once they are, they're invariably buggy and problematic. I waited for nearly a month after macOS #Sonoma was released to upgrade because I was waiting for Wacom to indicate their driver was ready; now that I've updated, their driver is crashing multiple times a day, generally requiring a reboot to get going again, and even when it works, for some reason using shift or the command key to select multiple items doesn't work if I'm using the Intuos (but does if I use an Apple trackpad for the mousing-and-clicking part of the operation).
I'm tired of fighting with Wacom. But I know nothing about the competitors, and I wonder about going from a ~$300 input device to a ~$70 input device. I don't expect it to be quite at Wacom's level, but I also don't want to end up with something that's even more frustrating than what I'm dealing with now.
Any recommendations, thoughts, suggestions, or personal experience to draw upon?
Thanks!
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