I tried more than 30 modern Linux distros for my Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 looking for that single one offering the most tablet PC features out of the box, or at least, easily configurable one. I'm very sorry to say that outside of Ubuntu-based crowd there's none. Of course, there's no prepackaged Fujitsu Ubuntu distribution either.
Lately ArtistX distro left me very disappointed: offering tons of sound producing/composing tools, it failed to support penabled Wacom stylus both in rotation and calibration. Besides, a 64 bit version that I was after, has a totally broken keyboard layouts section: real artists don't type, do they? Trash.
My last hope is this 64 bit Trusty Tahr Ubuntu Studio 14.04, a yesterday's daily. Well,it's fast (faster than all my previous ubuntus and debians on the same Fujitsu), and it has closest to perfect default pen calibration out of the box. I also discovered that my pen tilt has started working (somewhat) in GIMP, MyPaint, Krita, so it also means that my pen/screen calibration is perfect by default, it's just for left-handed artists, like Leonardo. Then, there's still a parallax problem
Well, I'm not Leonardo in that I'm right-handed, and I would be looking for some fine tweaks to change left-handed tilt to my right-handed one.
I just can't wait for stable Ubuntu Studio 14.10 which supposedly will employ Wayland, as this 20 year old X11 crap must go at last. I also hope Ubuntu will repair this volume control:
I'm talking about that little inverted "No Entry" sign
above which shows broken link to volume control. Volume/and sound works fine though via Fn+F8, F9, thank you. It's a "feature" in almost every Ubuntu since 11.04, are you guys nuts?
UPDATE: Today my Trusty Tahr is dead on my Fujitsu, just like this one, a New Zealandish tahr:
Lately ArtistX distro left me very disappointed: offering tons of sound producing/composing tools, it failed to support penabled Wacom stylus both in rotation and calibration. Besides, a 64 bit version that I was after, has a totally broken keyboard layouts section: real artists don't type, do they? Trash.
My last hope is this 64 bit Trusty Tahr Ubuntu Studio 14.04, a yesterday's daily. Well,it's fast (faster than all my previous ubuntus and debians on the same Fujitsu), and it has closest to perfect default pen calibration out of the box. I also discovered that my pen tilt has started working (somewhat) in GIMP, MyPaint, Krita, so it also means that my pen/screen calibration is perfect by default, it's just for left-handed artists, like Leonardo. Then, there's still a parallax problem
Well, I'm not Leonardo in that I'm right-handed, and I would be looking for some fine tweaks to change left-handed tilt to my right-handed one.
I just can't wait for stable Ubuntu Studio 14.10 which supposedly will employ Wayland, as this 20 year old X11 crap must go at last. I also hope Ubuntu will repair this volume control:
I'm talking about that little inverted "No Entry" sign
above which shows broken link to volume control. Volume/and sound works fine though via Fn+F8, F9, thank you. It's a "feature" in almost every Ubuntu since 11.04, are you guys nuts?
UPDATE: Today my Trusty Tahr is dead on my Fujitsu, just like this one, a New Zealandish tahr:
The reason was that a little ordinary upgrade for this Tahr (daily 14.04) broke too many things, plus never repaired volume control (panel plugin). So, I went back to my much trustier Saucy Salamander (Ubuntu Studio 13.10 final). The only bad thing of coming back is the need for manual screen calibration, manual creating something of wacom calibration conf file, repeating all damn thing, etc. Then, never think of disabling Wacom Serial Penabled Touchscreen touch in "Mouse and Touchpad" settings tool, because if you do disable it thinking T5010 doesn't have touch sensor, you will lose any touch by pen, so to speak.
Saucy Salamander still has the volume panel indicator bug, and no patching available. Fn+F8, Fn+F9 combos work though.
Here's that salamander now, don't know how saucy it will turn out in a week or two:
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| Fujitsu Lifebook 810U - very small and light (580g) convertible tablet pc (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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