Linux! 8D

[lb_lee]

Mori: Also oh man I am loving Linux and am never going back to Windows-only!

Rogan is used to hoarding installers like he's prepping for doomsday, and we just... haven't needed any of them? Linux just CAME with a bunch of default software that was exactly what I needed! It could use our scanner right out of the box, which was a good thing since it's now "legacy software" and we can't get the drivers online anymore. (Which is BS, because our scanner is a trooper. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just old.) Installing stuff was SO EASY. I am flabbergasted. It runs so much faster!

Of course, I haven't dared tried and noodle with our tablet and Clip Studio Paint yet, but that's fine, I'm cool with keeping Windows as some vestigial OS to support the stuff that won't run any other way. I'll also have to fix up our playlists since they seem to be in a Windows-only format and I have to revamp them too.

But WOW this is such an improvement. I don't even care that I can never game again, our shoulder already insured that anyway!

...I just realized that I could play Hack again without an emulator, most likely! OH LORD THE RAPTURE IS HERE! I DONE BEEN SWEPT UP AND AWAY TO SLOW-TO-UPDATE HEAVEN

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[lb_lee]

Mori: sweet, what distro are you?

We had to upgrade to the Cintiq a few years back due to a shoulder ailment. We still have our old Intuos, but can't draw on it nearly as long without pain, and the Cintiq has been a little more finicky in the past. We will see!

We've heard of Krita, but it seems to be more of a painting program, and we work overwhelmingly in black, white, and screentones, which CSP excels at. (You click a button and screentones go! We never have to manually make our own tone textures ever again!) We CAN work in GIMP if we have to, but it wrecks our shoulder unless they really improved it with the new version.

[e_k_braveman]

Mint Cinnamon, same as you I believe? Though I've been too busy to update from 20.2 so probably a bit behind on that front. ^^

Looking it up just now, it seems like the tablet should work by just plugging it in since apparently modern distros come pre-packaged with wacom support. If not, linuxwacom has instructions on how to install the drivers manually. I thought I had to install mine manually, but it's been a while so I may be misremembering.

TIL what screentones are, or at least, that they're called something besides "the cool pattern thing from manga" lol. It does seem like you have a point about CSP being better with them than Krita, based on the few videos I've watched. There's tutorials on how to make CSP work for Linux, but they seem to only work up to ~1.10, so if you want a later version, you do need Windows. You can use a virtual machine for that, but it's kind of frustrating to do so IME, so maybe dual booting would be your best bet. Or just using a different machine for it entirely, which is what I do!

But um, yeah, welcome to the club. ^w^ We have a disproportionate amount of animal mascots. Sometimes it can get frustrating trying to sort through old dependencies, but by god is it worth it to not have to deal with Microsoft's bullshit.

[lb_lee]

Mori: We only just updated today, so don't feel bad. :p

And holy crap, I decided to test-drive our tablet with GIMP (since why not, gotta use that junker anyway), and... you're right! Needed to tell GIMP to recognize pressure sensitivity, but that was a super easy fix. This is... so easy. I don't know how to deal with this level of ease. CSP will definitely be harder, though. I'm only going to try the workarounds for that once I have my sea legs in GIMP.

Screen tones: how you can afford to print textures and "shades of gray" using cheap junky black and white scanners without major color shift problems! *thumbs up*

EDIT: I lied. GIMP keeps having strange bugs I haven't experienced before. Trying to work it out, but certain tools just stop functioning in one tab, and I haven't figured out how to fix it besides rebooting GIMP. Oh well, better I learn now than later...

EDIT: the fault was mine. I had a layer locked and GIMP tends to make that less visually apparent than I'm used to.

[e_k_braveman]

Yay, I'm glad it worked! I don't personally enjoy using GIMP because I find fiddling with the the layer boundaries confusing and frustrating, but if it works for you, it works for you. Happy drawing! :)