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Tablet recommendations for osu! on gnu/Linux

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Scraft161
hi, I am a Linux user (insert obligatory I use arch BTW) who recently got into osu! (about a week ago) and have been enjoying the game ever since.

while I have been improving and getting good with a mouse I do eventually plan on switching away and when that time comes I hope to be able to make that switch then and there.
in order to do this I need to know what tablets the community recommends, there are however a couple challenges.

my requirements are:
[ol]
[li]It needs to have Linux support (not all company's and series have it)[/li]
[li]It needs to be good for playing osu![/li]
[li]If possible I'd like to keep the price as low as I can, while this is not as important it's just that I don't have an infinite amount of cash prepared to throw at this[/li]
[/ol]

also, from my research I noted that not all Wacom tablets have native Linux support.

[quote=graphicstabletreviews.com]One major chink in the Wacom armour is that they do not support the use of Linux out of the box. It does seem incredible to me, that a company with such a massive lead in this industry would ignore the Linux users, possibly a large chunk of their market.

However, they are helping an open source development of linux drivers for a selection of Wacom tablets – so they are not all evil after all.[/quote]
Source

I don't know how this still holds up so I thought to verify this with the holy text of Linux and from this exerpt

[quote=Arch Linux Wiki]Wacom does not officially support Linux. Linux support is provided by the Linux Wacom Project.[/quote]

tells me not much has changed.

If you use or know a good tablet and don't use Linux make sure to check this table first.

Thanks in advance, Scraft161
Justclaner
I personally recommend trying out GAOMON S620. I've been using it for quite some time now.

It's a pretty great budget tablet and you can check out all of its ups and downs on several tablet reviews. I did a bit of research and there might be some problems on Linux with it, though it seems many people have been able to get around it.

Read and see if it makes sense: https://blog.gaomon.net/faq/run_on_linux/
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Scraft161
I am a pretty good expert (take that how you want) at hacking stuff together in a way that works, so getting it to work isn't gonna be too big of an issue as long as I don't have to worry about writing my own drivers.

as far as playonlinux/wine/lutris/proton goes, I'm not a big fan as the underlying codebase tends to be weird and inconsistent for me (has been on multiple distro's and systems with different hardware) so I'm not too big of a fan.
while wine (and it's derivatives) are capable of amazing feats, there are still limitations especially when it comes to more complicated stuff like drivers.
add to that the fact that there is overhead which leads to input lag, (I've seen this with osu! stable running on wine) and it quickly becomes clear that in this case wine isn't something I would want to use.

I could try to see if I can modify the DIGImend driver to suit my needs but from the looks of things it might be either too laggy (depends on the windows driver and wine) or would require writing/modifying another driver for native support.

thank you anyways, even though you might not have helped me directly you helped point me to additional resources that I can use in the future
KeikiEnjoyer
Idk man, it's either

HUION's H460p (this is mine, the moment i got it i jumped like 1.6 M rank)

or

WACOM Intuos (basically every pros recommended tablet)
Topic Starter
Scraft161
I checked on the list and I see that the WACOM Intuos is supported by the linuxwacom driver and should work out of the box.
I think I will go with that one then as it seems to be a good one and works over USB (I despise Bluetooth with a fashion because it's slow and an open security hole for hackers to abuse).

thank you, I hadn't looked at what the pro's recommended as I wasn't sure if they'd all agree on the same one.
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