King Naga Calyo Lucere-DelphiDec 18, 2024

Still struggling with myself to justify buying a refurb'd Huion Kamvas Pro.

On the one paw, I almost never need to use an art tablet, and my iPad has sufficiently served my needs thus far.

But on the other paw, an art tablet that doubles as an extremely convenient third display for my PC, or a second display for my laptop, would be really nice to have.......

Show threadKevin Karhan 
@dragonarchitect I'd recommend looking at a #Wacom #Cintiq tho, as they are excellent in quality and just work everywhere...
Dec 18, 2024 at 5:02amWeb
Show thread/bin/snep-v7.2.3-LPDec 18, 2024
@kkarhan @dragonarchitect can't speak to Huion, but XP Pen also seems to "work everywhere" and is significantly cheaper than Wacom.
Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 18, 2024

@lindsays @dragonarchitect
Really?

But then again my recommendatio for #Wacom is just my experience as #Sysadmin and someone who equipped #CreativeProfessionals and daily-drives an #X230Tablet, so I'm biased due to 15+ years of experience with Wacom.

  • It's not that I don't think other brands can't deliver good products and even exceed in terms of price/performance ratio.

It's just that I have my plugs and have even setup some fancy stuff like 27" Cintiq Pros on free-floating arms so people can tilty-swively them however they feel ike with their setup...

  • But then again same folks also bought maxed-out "#Cheesegrater" #MacPro|s at release and the #ProDisplayXDR so clearly they just wrote it off as business expense, so there's that.

I always recommend people to try out said devices if possible. Maybe you'll find it to work out fine or be useless...

  • I've seen both happen to people across brands...
Show thread/bin/snep-v7.2.3-LPDec 18, 2024

@kkarhan @dragonarchitect heh. Yeah! To my surprise! i was very hesitant and ready to return it if it showed even a hair out of place but honestly, beat my expectations on Ubuntu. Admittedly, this is a brand new one, not refurbed, but still. Worked incredibly well so far.

And yeah, valid, Wacom had a lock on the market for a long time, but thankfully that's no longer true. At this point they're basically the Apple of drawing tablets.

Show threadKevin Karhan Dec 18, 2024

@lindsays @dragonarchitect Granted, I always welcome competition as it makes it easier for people to get started and forces established players to up their game and cut prices.

  • So even if one doesn't switch brands it'll force #wacom to do better...

OFC they achieved dominance with both IP & patents as well as providing a very plug & play experience, with basically every creative & engineering software to if not take advantage of it, at least work fine with them.

  • Again, I sincerely hope the situation has gotten way better since the last time I looked at an #XPen device, but back then every competitior to Wacom outside of #Windows Systems looked jank (#macOS drivers were barely working Kext|s) and #Linux support was between "Resistive 1 point touchscreen" and "NOPE!", so there's that...

I don't claim my experience to be autoritative, up to date or scientifically backed up (sample size N <200 = not a scientific dataset) and I think it's important that I take a closer look...