Reply To: Blender and Linux

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@bloozguy 

I have an inexpensive tablet that I use with my Windows 10 workstation, and have never used it with Mac or Linux, though I understand that drivers were written for it last year at some point. I was going to ask Kent about his experience with his tablet under Linux, since he’s a recent switcher. I understand that pressure sensitivity is an area of concern for the XP-Pen tablet I have, but I hadn’t heard too much about issues with Wacom products. Admittedly though I hadn’t considered Wacom, so I didn’t look into their issues too closely. I use all three platforms daily (Mac/Windows for work, Windows/Linux at home), and do a bit of modeling using Fusion 360 for 3D printing and CNC projects under Windows, so I just chose the easiest workstation to set up my tablet. Which Wacom tablet are you using?

I’ve always liked using Linux. I started with it as far back as 2001 I believe with Red Hat, prior to Fedora. RPM dependency hell led me to look elsewhere. I used Slackware for a while and built a LFS machine, but got tired of compiling everything and landed with Debian a couple years later and used it for a long time, alongside early OS X versions that were very much like BSD Unix. I tried SUSE and Gentoo for a while as well. I was exposed to Blender in the mid 2000s under Linux by a guy who told me that it was an open source equivalent to Photoshop, I was pretty disappointed then when I couldn’t figure oout the UI. Wish now that I had looked into it more closely. lol  I only started working with Blender again a couple months ago because I wanted a mesh modeler for building better organic shapes for 3D printing. I’ve been hooked on the tutorials since, and have learned a lot (many thanks to Kent and others). Actually kind of fun to be a noob again. It’s been a while.  lol