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Re:Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Flos... by vachina on Monday June 22, 2026 @01:29PM (#48633130)
The venn diagram for Linux user and an artist is so small they probably wouldn’t bother.

You can continue to use Wacom (only)

Re:Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Flos... by 5G_activated on Monday June 22, 2026 @02:52PM (#48634395)
The point is to get artists to use free software, or enable them to have an alternative to Windows or macOS.
Re:Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Flos... by so-rose on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:07AM (#48640988)
> The venn diagram for Linux user and an artist is so small they probably wouldn’t bother. > > You can continue to use Wacom (only)

You might be surprised. On the smaller scale, look no further than Blender and Krita: Their stats indicate plenty of artists using Linux to sculpt and paint, with tablets.

But it's "big serious business" too. As evidence, see the VFX Reference Platform (https://vfxplatform.com/), a baseline for artist workstations with plenty of industry backing (vendors involved include Autodesk, Foundry, and Side-Effects; stakeholders include the Visual Effects Society and, it seems, the Academy Software Foundation). It adapts to direct studio feedback, which is certainly not an exercise in charity, and I guarantee you that they all want tablets to work as well.

Anecdotally, I've heard that big shops in-house a lot of their tools, and do so for Linux. The reasons I've heard being control & ease of integration with all the bespoke petabyte-scale server-based automation pipelines, which are most certainly Linux.