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input-wacom
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linuxwacom / input-wacom

input-wacom

Linux kernel driver for Wacom devices

2Distinct people
2Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
732GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Linux kernel driver for Wacom devices

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

In spite of the article being 5 years old, I still found it interesting and relevant. The details of how the data was captured was helpful. The things I found most interesting…

johnea used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-05-17 21:30:38 UTC to 2025-10-05 08:24:18 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 122025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 212025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 29

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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May 122025-05-12 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC101
May 192025-05-19 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC000
May 262025-05-26 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 22025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 92025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 162025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 232025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 302025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 72025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 142025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 212025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 282025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 42025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 112025-08-11 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 182025-08-18 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 252025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 12025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 82025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 152025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 222025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 292025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
johnea·May 17, 2025Recommendation phrase
In spite of the article being 5 years old, I still found it interesting and relevant. The details of how the data was captured was helpful. The things I found most interesting fall into 3 parts: Part 1) It's heartening to see people enjoying their kids: > I told my son to clear my schedule. He bashed two wooden blocks together in understanding, encouragement, and sheer admiration. Go Dad! Enjoy it while you can! If you have an experience like mine: as a 57yo at the time, and well aware of what was coming. When I went from daily interacting with my son, who was finally old enough to speak with as a adult, he suddenly moved away to college over a weekend and I almost never see him any more 8-( I never expected the fully anticipated experience of empty-nest to affect me so strongly 8-/ Part 2) > I care about this for two reasons. > The first
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is a principled fuck you. I had to laugh 8-) This somehow reminded me of a line in one of my favorite movies: The Live Aquatic. Bill Murray's character is asked: This leopard shark is an endangered species. What would be the scientific purpose of killing it? To which he replies: Revenge... Part 3) The obligatory proprietary OS bashing: Several times, the author states: "A device that is essentially a mouse..." It should be pointed out, that a mouse is a USB class device. That is to say, it is a standard USB device that requires no proprietary driver (except for the purpose of exfiltrating data that the mouse maker has no functional need of, or other "value added" purposes) Pretty much any special feature of the device can be implemented as a user space library. The author is working on a Mac, the situation is even worse on windoze, where even a actual mouse will ask you to install a custom device driver. This is why linux, with a broad support of standard USB class devices, is now significantly superior to windows in USB device support. For almost any typical type device, when you plug it into a linux computer, it just works. No driver install or other configuration needed. Even if you need a driver to support your tablet on some version of an OS that doesn't provide support, there is a GPL waycom driver: https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom tl;dr: linux good, windoze sux, mac getting worse... In the current world, every computer company in any way associated with h/w or s/w or online activity is now also in the data borker business. This is similar to the way the car dealership industry is now basically a subdivision of retail loan banking. Try buying a car with cash, versus a lease or loan. But, of course, it's not just milking the idiot herd for all it can, its "maximizing efficiency", for somebody... So much for the glowing future brought to you by unbridled capitalism... That's it. Try not to use Waycom, or at least not on Mac or windoze...
In Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)

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