In the market for a new laptop or perhaps a Microsoft Surface-like tablet style system? Well, Star Labs have turned their StarLite laptop into a tablet.
You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can’t use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.
I sent an email a few days ago when I read this just to check, looks like they do support pens
(edit: for those who can’t see external images, it was an email I made to Star Labs support where they said it does have active capacitive pen support for pens that comply with MPP 2.0 or WGP.)
It depends.
You can basically always use the crappy ones made for general touchscreens to replicate your finger. You can’t use a real one with features like Apple Pencil/surface pen/wacom without an extra layer built into the screen to recognize them.
FWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.
Sure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn’t the problem.
I sent an email a few days ago when I read this just to check, looks like they do support pens
(edit: for those who can’t see external images, it was an email I made to Star Labs support where they said it does have active capacitive pen support for pens that comply with MPP 2.0 or WGP.)
Interesting. You’d think they’d make that obvious somewhere.