Thanks ! Wacom support just replied to me with a link to their linux packages repo, I have some reading ahead of me

Yes, I might do that, thanks for the advice.

I’ve tried a few distros recently (Bazzite, Nobara, Debian…), all with Plasma+Wayland, and none of them work with my Wacom Intuos. Nobara with Gnome works fine (that’s what I’m using in the meantime), albeit with a limited feature set: can’t remap tablet area, can’t use or remap the tablet buttons.
So, I’ve narrowed it down to something inbetween Plasma and Wayland. That’s all I know for now

I use the tablet as a pointing device -using a mouse hurts my wrist after roughly 20mn (old injury). So it really is an accessibility issue…

I have said this a few times before, apologies, but I’m hammering it because it’s not notorious enough.

I think I tried only Plasma. I will try Gnome thanks for the suggestion

these eyes are super unsettling

Wayland doesn’t work for me, I rely on a tablet in lieu of a mouse and under Wayland it’s unusable. I tried hard

Under an X session it behaves flawlessly

I learned the basics from Sonic the Hedgehog and Streets of Rage. Ready… Start! Time up! Game over! Marble zone! All useful phrases when abroad.

Yes, cared for… fed… fattened…

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yea and he deserves a nice hot bath to relieve from all the drug-induced stress

hah I love this one

Thanks ! will certainly test when I get the chance. No hardware acceleration isn’t surprising, but it may be worth the trouble still

Just for the sake of the anecdote, I just discovered that in KDE Plasma, you can put a taskbar anywhere you like, including vertically, resize it, and even rotate it at an arbitrary angle! it’s pretty much useless… but you can

So, I settled on Nobara (Plasma desktop) almost week ago now. Besides my troubles with Wacom tablet (it happens with all distros I tried, no solution so far), it’s all good. The OS isn’t constantly nagging me about something. It doesn’t lie about not restarting when I ask it to hold off -and consequently lose no work because of it. There is no random ad on the login screen. No web results sorted to appear first when I type to search for a local file or command. I can disable stuff I don’t use, such as window animations, etc. No shovelware like one-fucking-drive or some LLM butler taking up room, ram, and mental health.

All in all, I feel weirdly at peace when using this machine. It’s just a tool that’s succeeding in getting out of the way.

The only downside is I can’t use the Affinity suite, but besides that… perfect

good fucking god. I thought I wasn’t naive. I still was

There’s a bunch more missing from this one, but given the style, it’s probably okay

This is whataboutism. In short, worse things happening elsewhere do not invalidate the concerns here. Enabling fascists in this burning global society of ours is dangerous

I love this. So many twists