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Cover (video thumbnail) of the video: it shows a view of the tablet on my desktop, with keyboard on the top and the title (XPPen Artist 16 Pro Gen2 Review) in big, not that I want to poluate your TL, it's just the size necessary for a thumbnail on video platform. 😉

XPPen Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) - review on GNU/Linux

Link to the technical blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1004/ (Not ready yet - Work in progress)Links to buy the tablet: Official website: https...
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Amadeus Maximilian
Amadeus Maximilian  
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lovely review! I'm glad you're enjoying it so much and that it seems to be working well on Linux. 😊
Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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thanks so much for this video and blog entry you did. Ever since you posted about how you got to try and enjoy this device I think of buying one too. Now I am waiting for your discount code to get valid :blobfoxcomfytea:
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@TadayoshiFirefox Thanks! Oh yes, I saw the 'Black Friday' offer ends in November and the promocode start the 24 (from top of brain). I emailed them yesterday to ask if the offers could both work together, and they replied yes.
@Tadayoshi
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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Alas! That's not true.
If you enter the second code, the first one dissapears. At least in the German shop.

"Hinweis: Es kann jeweils nur ein Gutschein verwendet werden."
("Note: Only one voucher can be used at a time.")

@TadayoshiFirefox

@Tadayoshi
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@Grutjes Oh no, bummer... Sorry about that and thanks for the feedback.

I really did ask this specifically to my contact at XPPen (the one who sent me the list of URL for the shop) before publishing the video and she told me they could both be actionned. 😔

I hope at least German shops have stock of this model; the feedback I have for French was a out of stock last week.

@TadayoshiFirefox

@Tadayoshi @Grutjes
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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I have no idea why, but the code is working now!

Haha, and we both should get some sleep on this black friday 😀 so maybe it was my fault, just being too tired

@TadayoshiFirefox

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David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@Grutjes Oh, good news! Thanks for sharing.

(oh, yes, good reminder, sleep time 🦉)

@TadayoshiFirefox

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Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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@Grutjes we got two codes? Yesterday I tried the code and it deducted the 15 euro from the already discounted price. But the stock of the tablets seems to be exceptionally empty the German store page tells me !4 weeks delivery!
So cheers while we wait
@Grutjes
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@TadayoshiFirefox Hey, ok, so same situation than in France about the low stock of items. I guess now it is Europe-wide.

About the code; still only one code for the -15€/$ , the other promotion we talk is the black Friday, not a promotion specific of yesterday only but it was on a long duration even when I posted the video. I think it ends until roughly end November as far as I remember.

@Grutjes

@Tadayoshi @Grutjes
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

It's a bit different in every country until when the BF deal is running. You can check them by changing your country in the upper right. As a Dutch person I have to anyway, as there is no Dutch website. Fortunately both the Irish, German and Irish sites will deliver to the Netherlands.

It may be worth your while to check as every country has a slightly different deal. I found the French best, but unfortunately my virusscanner blocked payment there because of...

@Tadayoshi
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

...missing safety certifications.

I must say, I hope the equipment is better than their websites. Almost no explanation about some of the products (which extra nib?), and if you check the questions people ask you see many unanswered after months, or even wrongly answered.

But well, I make mistakes too 😀

@Tadayoshi
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@Grutjes @TadayoshiFirefox Oh yes, and the XPPen website is full of mistakes. Translators and marketing poeple had no idea what they were writing about color profiles and color space. In big: 159% sRGB and then 99% sRGB. (Real spec I guess compared to what I roughtly measured here: 99% AdobeRGB and 159% sRGB) 🤣
https://www.xp-pen.com/product/artist-pro-16-gen-2.html
Inside the paragraph they even write a "wide gamut 99%sRGB" hilarious.
Also: marketing photo using the keyboard shortcut at 90° or product unconnected, fun 🤣
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Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

For anyone still doubting:

- I have no idea when they will deliver. They say within 3 days, but I have not heard from them after 5. Their communication is problematic.

- This code will give you a bigger discount, only in the next 22 hours:
XPBFEM5P2

@Tadayoshi
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

And I really hate this. 100 dollars less as what I bought it for just a few days ago:

https://www.storexppen.eu/buy/artist-pro-16-2nd.html

I don't think I'll buy from them again.

Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) Drawing Display: 16K Pressure Levels - XPPen | XP-Pen Europe Official Store

Explore limitless creativity with Artist Pro 16 (Gen 2) Drawing Display. 16K pressure levels, X3 Pro Smart Chip Stylus, vivid X-Nature Display. Elevate your art now!
www.storexppen.eu
@Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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@Grutjes time to make use of the return policy I have I guess. Internet bought goods can be returned without a reason within 14 days of delivery. That price drop is a huge loss of trust. Might have never found out about this if this wasn't posted.
@Grutjes
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox
I mailed them with the question to skip the hassle and send me back $102. We'll see what happens next.

I can't send anything back as nothing is delevired yet. Didn't get a proper VAT invoice either...

@Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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@Grutjes I saw a button to ask for a return bellow the recipe site I screenshotted but yea that way of behaviour is also good. Asking them or I just return it if they don't
@Grutjes
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@TadayoshiFirefox @Grutjes Huuuuhhh.... :rblobglare: That price drop is indeed a weird commercial move to do *after* Blackfriday and Cybermonday thing. I guess many purchased the device thinking they would have the best deal in this period. Suddently dropping price by that much after is very questionnable. I hope you'll be able to cancel, and re-purchase with the new price.
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Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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so my reply from them to this info was 'thats is the store for Scandinavians and eastern EU countries. The price difference comes from different labour and transportation costs. The products deleivery delay is shoved onto being shipped from China because stocks in Germany ran low.'
I hand my refund request in then. Such a fishy behaviour is not something I want to support. Cheers and happy sketching to y'all
Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox
I got the same mail, and another that gives my tracing code. It leads to a plane from china.

If you check their "east european" website, which just says EU, they are right: you can't order for the Netherlands. But you can for Norway, Greece and Denmark - they certainly don't have bigger transportation or labor costs.

I can understand why you cancel. Let us know if you get your money back.

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Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

Did you get your money back Tadayoshi?

I was stupid enough not to ask for it in the end. DHL came to my door when I was sleeping, to deliver. I woke up, yelled from the top floor I was coming down, but they didn't hear me. When I was downstairs they already drove off, leaving me a card with a QR code that doesn't work.

@davidrevoy

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Grutjes
Grutjes  
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@TadayoshiFirefox

Now DHL says they delivered my tablet (they didn't).

DHL says they can't investigate unless XP-Pen orders them to. XP-Pen says I should contact DHL. DHL says I should contact XP-Pen, etcetera.

Seems I just lost my money and my parcel, and someone at DHL is doing some side business with stolen goods, with cover from their bosses.

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David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@Grutjes @TadayoshiFirefox Oh no. I hope you'll find a way to know what happened. I thought all this type of things could be traced to not loose a delivery 😔
@Tadayoshi @Grutjes
Tadayoshi
Tadayoshi  
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@Grutjes sadly if the delivery driver just States the parcel as delivered that is enough for the DCL to say not our problem
@Grutjes
Jookia
Jookia  
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Thank you so much for taking the time to help get this tablet up and running on mainline Linux. It's also really nice to see a hardware company take such a risk where the result might be an angry blog post about a tablet. 😀
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@jookia Thank you Jookia. 😊 I'm lucky enough to be in contact with a very nice employee at XPpen; she also finds the challenge very interesting and has even tried to talk to their hierarchy about the GPL licence for their proprietary driver. It wasn't a success, and my guess about this is: the driver is probably a service made and bought by a third party IT company specialising in this, not in-house dev.
@Jookia
OrbitalMartian
OrbitalMartian  
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nice review, may I ask what pencil brush you used for the sketch in the video and which paint brush you used (for the green painting).
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@orbitalmartian Thanks! Both are from my latest brushkit: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article953/krita-brushes-2023-01-bundle

On this picture https://www.davidrevoy.com/data/images/blog/2023/2023-01-18_deevad-bundle-2023_b.jpg , the pencil is the one in "Sketching" , and the green painting tilt brush is the top-right one in Brush Textured (with the two arrows showing the tilt).

Krita brushes 2023-01 bundle

Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
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@OrbitalMartian
OrbitalMartian
OrbitalMartian  
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thanks 😀 do you have the whole painting on one layer and have to be very precise about controlling where you paint?
David Revoy
David Revoy  
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@orbitalmartian Hey, it depends; because even when I work flat I usually create "duplicate layer" of the flat base here and there, so I can always erase area to a previous state. So, I still try to be precise, but without too much stress because I can easily rollback the artwork.
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