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Huions are pretty great. Very affordable and very high quality. I'm guessing the premium you pay for Wacom has more to do with the brand name than the actual pr

by bogwog 5y ago

Huions are pretty great. Very affordable and very high quality. I'm guessing the premium you pay for Wacom has more to do with the brand name than the actual product. I'm not a professional artist though, so maybe Huions are bad for pro work. Idk, but I'm happy with my Huion.

thejohnconway 5y ago
I guess the question is, what data does Huion’s software send back?
woolion 5y ago
I spent a few years with a Huion screen tablet (GT-19 series), but pressure sensitivity response was really bad compared to a Cintiq. However we are comparing a 400€ product to one that is about 3K€; second-hand it can trade for under 1K, and then it is a reasonable alternative. With a Huion 1060+ the pressure response felt amazing; however that was on Windows, I never got it to work under Linux. For a hobbyist it is a really much better choice than the cheap Wacom (e.g. Bamboo line), because it is important to have a big drawing area, so that you can draw from your elbow and not from your wrist.
- m4rtink 5y ago
  AFAIK Wacom drivers on Linux are good & upstream. The various Chinese tablets are much more involved to get running on Linux, if possible at all. Also, being fully open source I don't think the Linux Wacom drivers do any of the shady stuff the Windows ones apparently do.
  - woolion 5y ago
    I only use Linux and indeed, drivers work OOtB and don't require you to sign any privacy policy. Although you don't have the fancy GUI that they have on Windows. The Huion GT works OOtB with the Wacom drivers. For the 1060+, I tried all the out-of-tree drivers without any luck, but that was about 3 years ago. https://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/ https://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/ (support was added in 2018, so now it probably works after minimal work)
na85 5y ago
Given that Huion is headquartered in Shenzhen, I'm skeptical that the privacy aspect will be much better.
- userbinator 5y ago
  It's much better when the company focuses on the hardware and doesn't have the aspirations to turn into a spyware-driven "cloud-first" megacorp.

by bogwog 5y ago

thejohnconway 5y ago

I guess the question is, what data does Huion’s software send back?

woolion 5y ago

I spent a few years with a Huion screen tablet (GT-19 series), but pressure sensitivity response was really bad compared to a Cintiq. However we are comparing a 400€ product to one that is about 3K€; second-hand it can trade for under 1K, and then it is a reasonable alternative. With a Huion 1060+ the pressure response felt amazing; however that was on Windows, I never got it to work under Linux. For a hobbyist it is a really much better choice than the cheap Wacom (e.g. Bamboo line), because it is important to have a big drawing area, so that you can draw from your elbow and not from your wrist.

m4rtink 5y ago
AFAIK Wacom drivers on Linux are good & upstream. The various Chinese tablets are much more involved to get running on Linux, if possible at all. Also, being fully open source I don't think the Linux Wacom drivers do any of the shady stuff the Windows ones apparently do.
- woolion 5y ago
  I only use Linux and indeed, drivers work OOtB and don't require you to sign any privacy policy. Although you don't have the fancy GUI that they have on Windows. The Huion GT works OOtB with the Wacom drivers. For the 1060+, I tried all the out-of-tree drivers without any luck, but that was about 3 years ago. https://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/ https://digimend.github.io/drivers/digimend/tablets/ (support was added in 2018, so now it probably works after minimal work)

na85 5y ago

Given that Huion is headquartered in Shenzhen, I'm skeptical that the privacy aspect will be much better.

userbinator 5y ago
It's much better when the company focuses on the hardware and doesn't have the aspirations to turn into a spyware-driven "cloud-first" megacorp.