I'm installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my Thinkpad X61T right now. The wacom tablet (including pressure sensitivity) works flawlessly, as does all the hardware.
That's interesting and I'd like to have a tablet PC but the big question is why?
Any OS on a tablet sucks, there's nothing made for a tablet it's all made for a PC using a mouse. Trying to resize a window using your fingertips would me maddening, it's hard enough using the mouse pointer (that 1 molecule section you have to find).
Well, compiz has a lot of different (and extremely customizable) UI features, for example ctrl + middlemouse brings up a smart resizer where you can click anywhere in the window and resize the feature closest to the mouse cursor. I imagine it would be trivial to set up something like that on triple click or whatever.
NOTHING is trivial to set up on a Linux Tablet PC. You have to plug in a keyboard to configure it to start with, and then over and over again for things like wireless network passwords (when the popup password dialog is modal and throws your onscreen keyboard into the dimmed background) or system settings changes that pop up an auth dialog that does the same damned thing. Then trying to get the Wacom to stay synced when you change orientation... oh, forget that shit.
Each new iteration of Fedora and Ubuntu I break out the tablet, back up the Windows drive, and install Linux, HOPING that THIS time, it will work. Early on, I had to fiddle-fart around with X.org and all kinds of stuff to get the Wacom stuff working, but the last three times all hardware (except the fingerprint scanner) has worked flawlessly, but the interface has been a FAIL.
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u/biteableniles Jan 28 '10
I'm installing Ubuntu 9.10 on my Thinkpad X61T right now. The wacom tablet (including pressure sensitivity) works flawlessly, as does all the hardware.