Gaomon PD1161 V2 - review on GNU/Linux
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Video:
- On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOf02Ss4HvY
- On Peertube: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/eFHWMqujXHNvTo7NeDuvvB
This article accompanies my video review of the Gaomon PD1161 V2, a small sized display drawing tablet. The video provides my in-depth look at the device's hardware. This blog post, on the other hand, focuses on the information and technical aspects of installing and configuring the device on a GNU/Linux operating system.
Let's go to the point: it's a bad model. I don't recommended this one. I'm not even submiting the video to Gaomon for review before posting because I know they would ask me to not post it (it happened in the past with another brand). But I think it should be also known, that's my role in reviews: cover the bad and the good.
Links
- Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4cW3YF9
- Amazon FR: https://dub.sh/yBLkM9K
- Official Store: https://dub.sh/N2FC0h7 (use code GM5 for 5% off)
GNU/Linux out of the box situation:
So, in the review, I listed that the drawing and painting experience is not terrible compare to almost all other aspect; and my second positive thing about this tablet is that Gaomon made something out of the box for my GNU/Linux KDE Plasma install. Is it because they reuse addresses of a previous model already integrated in the kernel? In udev-hid-bpf? I tried to search, but it was hard to understand where this support comes from.
The stylus in Plasma System Settings, on KDE Neon User Edition.
The pad buttons in Plasma System Settings, on KDE Neon User Edition.
Anyway, it works. Both with all the cables, and in single USB-C cable situation. The stylus coordinate, the buttons, no hardcoded things on the second buttons, and all the pad buttons correctly here to customize, directly in the System Settings. Except a little bug: the GUI shows 10 buttons while the device only has 8. Just enter what you want on button 9 and 10, this is the type of minor bug that I don't even want to try to post fix or to address...
If only all tablet would have a support like that. My job here would be unnecessary, and believe me, I dream of that.
