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🐧 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.

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article976/lenovo-yoga-370-on-gnu-linux-technical-companion-article

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 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.
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.
"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.
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:
I really enjoyed this article and it gave me a lot of ideas for reusing some older hardware. Thank you for sharing!
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 😁
it is sick...
Since my comment i have read it (your post) second time, then i realised that it doesnt matter that i would NOT use it in your - artistic - way, but it would be great tool to make notes in my homeoffice.
Now these laptops used can be found for about 250€ so - for me - it is better option then (for example) reMarkable - for ONLY homeOffice use. AND without any other subscriptions and closed software shit.

...

yes. I have ordered one used Lenovo...

Thank you!
@wikiyu 🙂 Oh nice, thanks for the feedback. They are good machines!
Amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing! ❤
That looks really awesome! I've been thinking about getting myself a drawing tablet, so this is very helpful.

#drawing #digitalDrawing #drawingTablet
I have a yoga 370 too! And I am very interested in this!
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
a nice patent with varnish dots 😀
@elfi Thanks. I also have a Surface Pro 3 here, but be careful: the N-Trigger (not sure if I spell it) tech of the stylus is super laggy and slow. That was one of my fail test on Linux , along with a Samsung tab Pro. Device with a stylus well built-in for low input lag are actually rare. A lot of devices with "toy styluses" around.
I hope yours is a model that will have a good support!
@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...
Oh! THANKS. I was looking for this kind of computer for my daughter, but didn't know if linux (debian for me) would pass.