simple@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoStar Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tabletwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1835arrow-down111
arrow-up1824arrow-down1external-linkStar Labs reveal their new StarLite, a Surface-like Linux tabletwww.gamingonlinux.comsimple@lemm.ee to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square143fedilink
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up38·1 year agoIt depends. You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can’t use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.
minus-squaresocsa@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoFWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.
minus-squareteruma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year agoSure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn’t the problem.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoInteresting. You’d think they’d make that obvious somewhere.
It depends.
You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can’t use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.
FWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.
Sure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn’t the problem.
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Interesting. You’d think they’d make that obvious somewhere.