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SteamDeck drawing setup (Huion HS64 and Krita) (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by jsalvador@programming.dev to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Recently I've been looking for creating a portable gamedev station, because I refuse to buy a (another) laptop for game-jams and out-of-home development. I need something able to run Unity/Godot, Krita and sometimes Blender. I already own a Steam Deck, and I thought it could be the solution. Installing this Huion tablet was kinda problematic since drivers are not made for Arch Linux based distros, but OpenTabletDriver via Flatpak made the day. Also Krita works quite nice!

Deck also serves as second screen to hold a mandatory htop and evaluate the performance.

Disclaimer: draw made by my girlfriend, I'm not that good yet. You can find her at ypsilenna.art.

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Glad you found a working driver for the tablet! There are drivers available through aur, but they mention they're deliberately out of date because the newer drivers won't support older devices. Looks like quite a mess to identify the newest driver that would work with your device, and that would be on top of needing to find a good way to permanently install it with the deck's locked down file system.

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Major problem was drivers are made to run under Ubuntu/Debian, but not under ArchLinux, so after trying them without success, I decided to go for OpenTabletDriver and it worked nice!

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking sweet :3 I've somehow not considered using the steam deck to draw

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

On Reddit, someone also told me to give it a try with a capacitive stylus, now I'm looking for one!

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your gf has a really cool website. I love how the images open in a little window as if it were a desktop.

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks! I made some improvements on the site, but 90% of it has been made by her!

[–] IceVAN@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I got a wacom intuos s (pug & play) for that reason, after having a couple of huions. Opentabletdriver only gave me problems (constant crashes and unstable functionality). I'd recommend you a foldable bluetooth keyboard for jams (check for one that work in usb mode too if you want to input the luks password or something like that). I've been using the deck as main pc for the last 6 months or so with debian, docked most of the time. Not a bad setup for the money.

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This one is Logitech MX Keys, I'm using it as regular work keyboard (I'm software developer), but too big for jams, so I was thinking about something like MX Keys mini or Logitech Pebble, both TKL and bluetooth. Also a portable 15.6 screen because carrying this Lenovo one would be problematic.

[–] IceVAN@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I got these: Moko foldable and Plugable bluetooth. I highly recommend the second one because 1. Normal layout and 2. It works with usb cable, so you can unlock LUKS or get into bios if you need to. The moko feels better to type on but you have to deal with the layout (just give it time) and it only works via bluetooth (usb is charge only), so no LUKS prompt/bios AFAIK.

[–] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That tablet name sounds like dickon in Russian, not that I think the tablet is crap, but the name made me giggle

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

Lol, didn't notice but it's true, it sounds like хуй.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a mexican sausage called chalupa, every time I see it my brain defaults to залупа

Not related to the topic of steam decks or drawing tablets at all, but your comment reminded me of it :3

[–] jsalvador@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious about how we ended here but this is the best comment I read today xDD

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 6 days ago

The machinations of my mind are an enigma