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David Revoy

🐧 I wrote a new blog entry listing all the changes I made to turn the Lenovo Yoga 370 into my mobile GNU/Linux digital painting device. It's long because it contains detailed instructions for beginners. I hope it is helpful.

davidrevoy.com/article976/leno

Ps: not sponsored or an adv: the machine is from 2019.

#linux #krita #MastoArt #ArtWithOpensource #Fedora #KDE #thinkpad

A photo of the Lenovo 370 Yoga device, running Fedora 38 with a digital sketch of Pepper penciled on the canvas of Krita.
A photo of the Lenovo 370 Yoga device, running Fedora with a digital quick painting of Carrot in Krita done in the train. The keyboard on screen is 'onboard' and the system settings shows the Fedora logo. A terminal windows has 'Hello World!' written on it.
A photo of tweaks and DIY I do on the top of a Wacom Bamboo Ink stylus.
Label: 
- Dots of varnish to feel the buttons
- I removed the metalic part at the end.
- Textured tape.
19 comments
Raghukamath

@davidrevoy Nice write up, it must have been fun to project the art on the castle wall. Good adventure tablet 👍🏽.

Also sad about wayland being DOA for artists, despite many proponents saying it is ready for production.

Gerard Braad

@davidrevoy I also used grip-tape on my wacom pens... and removed the clips from the Bamboo Stylus pens I have.

Felix Urbasik

@davidrevoy "In this respect, the Debian and Kubuntu packages were really old"

Yeah, #Debian is nice and stable, but I usually prefer it to be more cutting edge too.

"The Wayland session is still a no-go for artists"

Yep, same. #Wayland feels like the better idea, but is still incomplete. I hope that will change soon.

zeh

@davidrevoy
good post.
just a remark about #debian: april was indeed bad timing to test debian stable, because the next release was very close and so those packages were old, yes. when more recent packages are needed, it's always possible to run the debian testing distribution, which is very current and also stable. many people use it on desktops or laptops.
wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Raoul ꓨ

@davidrevoy Lovely writing, as always, and a great source of information for newcomers too! I will be looking for the display calibration device (second hand, as you said) :blobcatcheer: :blobcatfingergun:

Sir Dippingsauce

@davidrevoy I really enjoyed this article and it gave me a lot of ideas for reusing some older hardware. Thank you for sharing!

Wiktor - wikiyu

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org
I do not have this hardware
I do not have ANY artistic parts in my soul

I do really like this article ... just as a nerd that like to tinker with stuff
Very good DIY tutorial :D

rival

@davidrevoy Amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing! <3

Mike Luna 🌙

@davidrevoy That looks really awesome! I've been thinking about getting myself a drawing tablet, so this is very helpful.

#drawing #digitalDrawing #drawingTablet

Dings

@davidrevoy I have a yoga 370 too! And I am very interested in this!

Odoben

@dingensen I have a Lenovo Flex 5 and I've been getting into drawing lately, using Krita on it with Fedora Sway (so far I haven't encountered things that don't work properly on Wayland but perhaps I will).
I already posted a couple sketches :blobfox:

Ninad Pundalik

@davidrevoy thank you for writing this up! I have a device a couple of years down in the same brand, will dual boot now with these notes

David Revoy

@torbuntu It's not maintained by Krita team, and big libs and frameworks using it are not patched to fix specific issues. It's not as stable as the appimage...

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