God, this photo makes him look like a sleazy refrigerator salesman in a dying rural red-state town.

Woof, this was a rollercoaster. Ah, the struggle and the triumph, the hard-won knowledge and the enthusiastic urge to explain the problem and the solution. The joy of fixing something you love and need.

🥲 Congratulations, you are a true Linux user.

I use Mint, and a drawing tablet.

I know this can be a problem with Huion tablets, since their drivers are closed source. I bought a Wacom tablet for this exact reason, their firmware is open-source, and so it’s bundled into Ubuntu’s software and all of its forks.

I’m sorry that there isn’t more I can tell you. I could only afford to buy a high quality drawing tablet once, so I wanted to make sure the firmware was compatible with Linux. If you get very frustrated, you can likely find a secondhand Wacom on eBay.