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Let me tell you about the superior Linux operating system, where this is not a problem.
My still-in-use cheap flatbed scanner from 2002 lost Windows support after XP. It is fully functional and operational on my laptop built in 2022 running Linux.
Can't have driver issues if you don't have drivers!
Well yeah, you don't have to install anything. The drivers are in the Kernel. When was the last time you actually had to install a driver on a Mac?
Wacom might be one of the worst examples you could choose here.
One of my recent attempts at Linux-ing was cut short because it was impossible to get my tablet to work without summoning Nyarlathotep. (The tablet was also broken after that attempt but I get yelled at when I suggest a causative relationship)
What tablet was it? Not every brand has good Linux support, but Wacom's support specifically is excellent. And because the driver is in the kernel, it won't stop working with updates until long after the hardware is completely redundant (if even then).
Warning: whining incoming, about the perfectest of perfect operating systems that cannot do wrong.
Huion Kamvas 13. I did find loads of instructions on the net. They were either cryptic "paste this occult incantation in that obscure place that you don't know because you don't know Linux yet" (and when that command doesn't work you're shit out of luck because you don't know what you just did) or apparently just slightly outdated because a few steps in they didn't correspond to what I was seeing on screen anymore.
I'm not above tinkering with this stuff, at all, that's why I keep coming back every time someone says "Linux is so easy now, it all just works". And then I fight my system for a few days, even just trying to get it to play sound, reading a bunch of forum posts that assume you already know your way around and (often outdated) documentation that leads me down rabbitholes that lead down more rabbitholes of looking up concepts and terms, drifting further and further from what I was trying to do, and then I give up. Until the next person gushes about how easy it all is.
Yeah those graphics tablets with a screen attached are a bit more complicated than plain drawing tablets. I have no personal experience with them, but AFAIK the driver side of things (the input method) is a fairly generic touchscreen/stylus device, and the main pain point is getting the display to work correctly.
Linux desktop has over the past ~5 years gone through a pretty foundational change precisely in the display configuration department, when the almost 40 years old X11 display server was replaced with Wayland. Most distros have moved over, but a lot of (imo clueless) people online still frequently recommend distros like Linux Mint, which notoriously is still stuck on X11, so if that's what you tried, then... yeah, sorry, there's a lot of bad advice online.
I'm seeing many reports online saying that specific tablet should work well out of the box with KDE Plasma 6, which is one of the most well-supported and up-to-date desktop environments, so next time you try Linux, consider that. A couple of examples of distros that ship with Plasma are the popular Bazzite and CachyOS.
Also, after googling a bit it looks like there's official "drivers" for that device on the manufacturer's website. By the looks of it, they're not technically drivers (those are in the kernel already), but rather a desktop app/extension that adds software-based features like macro functionality. The device should work fine without it and the app seems to have trouble working on a lot of systems anyway, but if you used the corresponding Windows "driver" then you'll be missing the software functionality you're used to, and will have to make do with more generic solutions like quick selection wheels implemented by digital art software.
This is an unfortunately common situation on Linux, and also happens with e.g. gaming mice and other peripherals, where stuff like the Logitech and Razer and whatnot gaming apps generally aren't available. On Windows these are often called "the driver" (though the actual driver is separate from the app). Linux users are often the kind of crowd that hates apps like that to begin with, but I suppose there are also people who actually use them and if you're one of them, you'll have to find more generic replacements to their features if you switch.
My main issue isn't even with Linux. I'm aware that it's not as dumbed down as Windows and that I will have to adjust (which, yay, I frequently feel fucking insulted by Windows) and learn new concepts. I'm mostly mad at people who instantly blame the person frustrated at trying to make it work, as if there wasn't even a hint of a possibility of the cause for their problems being anything other than wanting everything handed to them. Because it's all "sooo easy" and there can of course simply be no reason other than laziness for not switching.
So I'm honestly grateful and happy that you do acknowledge that it's not quite as easy :)
Honestly yeah, but you can see this from the Windows and Mac side as well. Just look a few comments above "Can't have issues if you have no drivers to install!" As if that was any help at all or accurate to reality.
My problem with linux comes from companies that say their hardware works on linux and then you notice that is a blatant Lie. (Had to deal with a wifi board that said they were Linux compatible but weren't plug and play and the driver needed internet to download and install, genius work there).
Huion has a few tablets that work out of the box (as far as I've seen) on Linux. My partner has a Huion and it works perfectly, very little set up. Also work great as a monitor for when your PC monitor is too old and doesn't wanna show the Bios.