I think it depends on the stylus and the software. This drove me batty for a long time. I now have a cheap Aliexpress drawing tablet (no display), Digimend, and

I think it depends on the stylus and the software. This drove me batty for a long time. I now have a cheap Aliexpress drawing tablet (no display), Digimend, and MyPaint under Ubuntu. It does as well as pencil and paper. It's not as good as a fancy pen and nice paper, mind you, but it's good enough. My major problem is straight lines. I haven't got that down yet (albeit with just a few hours practice). But writing has no lag, and comes out fine.