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[–] dustyData 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How hard would it be to make it work with a third party stylus?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

FWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.

[–] teruma 12 points 1 year ago

Sure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn't the problem.

[–] sturmblast -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it wouldn't be hard at all you just buy a stylus that works like a finger

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

With the catch that it works like a finger meaning fat and imprecise. A stylus like the surface has is more like a pen and needs hardware in the tablet to function.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did you ever use the Nvidia Shield Tablet stylus? It was a very thin and precise passive stylus that worked on any touch screen. It was pretty nice. They probably only sold a handful of them, so there was no gen 2. I happen to know someone who was working on that project, so they let me play with it.

[–] sturmblast -1 points 1 year ago

maybe 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Not really. I've got a cheap stylus for my phone that acts like a pen, down to drawing fine lines too. It can't adjust the thickness of the line based on pressure, like my Wacom pad and pen for the PC, but for most things it works brilliantly :)