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nana77 · 07-21-2025, 02:10 PM

When saw that that Wacom Tablet Mobilestudio 13" was highly lowered in price, I'd didn't holded the temptation, and bought it; thought there are others too on a way cheap sale than usual, in my humble opinion because Windows 10's starting to drop support, and on that device upgrading seems to work not that well (the device has a processor from 2016).
I was waiting to have the inspiration, because the intention was to use a different OS on it, and not sure how much work was needed to do it.
The idea was to put in a minimalistic operating system, and use it with Krita; instead while trying Pop_OS!, looking anything worked fine from the first try, I guess I will keep it as so (wifi working without issues, suspend too; I was wondering too how would it be to use gestures on a portable pc, and those are configured by default, fine working too - swiping four finger to the right to open applications' menu, to the left to open the sidebar desktop's switcher, three fingers to switch throught the opened windows..); it has a 2k screen, so for those monies (was at around 350 euros in total, shipping and VAT included, including having to add a Lenovo 100W usb-c power supply - the one made for the Yoga; and the Pro Pen 2 that I'd found on Amazon.com at 30$ less than Amazon.it; the device itself was at 260 euros), imho it worths (saw others from Japan at the same price, considering the total adds and the less expensive shipping from there).
So just trying it out, it's a very nice device, thinking that having 8 or 16GB of RAM in 2016 wasn't the default set on laptops (thought it's upgradable only on later 2019 devices); it can be used to watch movies, comics - colors are fantastic, those devices were sold to professionals for likely 1200/1600$, depending on configurations - or adding stuff throught the central Thunderbolt port (like also using it as a secondary monitor; not my means, I'd just like to use it with Krita, learn stuff, and grow this as an hobby).
Quite happy how GNU/Linux works fantastically: at the very first start it even asked for a firmware update, that's not that common if the pc is too custom (if I recall it correctly: it was a long time I didn't mess around within an installation).
I'm not the kind that buys everything every once and then, time ago I did tried an aged Wacom 21UX, 'couse in reviews it seemed that having a low resolution on LCD, and just 1024 points of pressure for the pen's tip wouldn't change much unless doing very professional stuff.
I'm not also the kind one that sketches anywere (as real ones), and having a device that doesn't requires a pletora of cables to connect it, it was what I'd like.
Sorry for the long reading, I hope not to have wrote too badly.
Just a quick tryed out:
https://imgur.com/a/9mksTDL

Edit, typos.
Edit 2: within defaults', on settings there is yet a Wacom's tab; also nice that while not using a keyboard it pops out a nice one (which I didn't saw any, in past times, on those desktops).

07-21-2025, 02:10 PM	#44250
nana77 Evangelist Posts: 448 Karma: 860470 Join Date: May 2025 Device: Kobo Forma	When saw that that Wacom Tablet Mobilestudio 13" was highly lowered in price, I'd didn't holded the temptation, and bought it; thought there are others too on a way cheap sale than usual, in my humble opinion because Windows 10's starting to drop support, and on that device upgrading seems to work not that well (the device has a processor from 2016). I was waiting to have the inspiration, because the intention was to use a different OS on it, and not sure how much work was needed to do it. The idea was to put in a minimalistic operating system, and use it with Krita; instead while trying Pop_OS!, looking anything worked fine from the first try, I guess I will keep it as so (wifi working without issues, suspend too; I was wondering too how would it be to use gestures on a portable pc, and those are configured by default, fine working too - swiping four finger to the right to open applications' menu, to the left to open the sidebar desktop's switcher, three fingers to switch throught the opened windows..); it has a 2k screen, so for those monies (was at around 350 euros in total, shipping and VAT included, including having to add a Lenovo 100W usb-c power supply - the one made for the Yoga; and the Pro Pen 2 that I'd found on Amazon.com at 30$ less than Amazon.it; the device itself was at 260 euros), imho it worths (saw others from Japan at the same price, considering the total adds and the less expensive shipping from there). So just trying it out, it's a very nice device, thinking that having 8 or 16GB of RAM in 2016 wasn't the default set on laptops (thought it's upgradable only on later 2019 devices); it can be used to watch movies, comics - colors are fantastic, those devices were sold to professionals for likely 1200/1600$, depending on configurations - or adding stuff throught the central Thunderbolt port (like also using it as a secondary monitor; not my means, I'd just like to use it with Krita, learn stuff, and grow this as an hobby). Quite happy how GNU/Linux works fantastically: at the very first start it even asked for a firmware update, that's not that common if the pc is too custom (if I recall it correctly: it was a long time I didn't mess around within an installation). I'm not the kind that buys everything every once and then, time ago I did tried an aged Wacom 21UX, 'couse in reviews it seemed that having a low resolution on LCD, and just 1024 points of pressure for the pen's tip wouldn't change much unless doing very professional stuff. I'm not also the kind one that sketches anywere (as real ones), and having a device that doesn't requires a pletora of cables to connect it, it was what I'd like. Sorry for the long reading, I hope not to have wrote too badly. Just a quick tryed out: https://imgur.com/a/9mksTDL Edit, typos. Edit 2: within defaults', on settings there is yet a Wacom's tab; also nice that while not using a keyboard it pops out a nice one (which I didn't saw any, in past times, on those desktops). Attached Thumbnails Last edited by nana77; 07-21-2025 at 03:59 PM.