• conciselyverbose@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      FWIW, my daily driver is a Lenovo Yoga with Ubuntu and the active pen works just fine with that. That support is definitely there.

      • teruma@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        12
        ·
        1 year ago

        Sure, because the Yoga has the extra screen layer to support active pens. Linux isn’t the problem.