Does anyone have experience with XPPEN tablet drivers on Linux? Do they provide the same fuctionality as the Windows and MacOS ones?

Hello,

As digital “artist” myself i investigate the support for tables on linux for quite some time, and it seems that DIGImend - Tablets has a decent list you can investigate about in detail, and is actively developed so for sure more will be added there.
To install it you need this package from AUR
AUR (en) - digimend-drivers-git-dkms
and of course you will need the linux headers for your running one before that.

Best to try to find some answers on issue pages of diginmed github

There is a driver offered for Deco 03 on their official page

but without the hands on the tablet is hard to say how it performs and if all features will be available under linux.

Have a look at this topics:

And this one has a couple of links that for sure will be helpful

Also, depending on your preferred DE, some things might be straight forwards, or might require additional tweaking, or as presented in the last link, a standalone UI.

For now the Wacom tablets seem to be more easier to set up and use in KDE Plasma and Gnome, as have a slightly better support, but indeed are a bit more expensive due to their battery free Stylus technology. :slight_smile:

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