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Wacom tablets
Raised as a usability problem by 23 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2010–2026), in 23 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Watching the monitor while drawing on a separate tablet is disorientingUnreviewed
20102026- Tablet spans all screens, so small movements jump too far on the middle monitor2021-05-18
- Drawing on a separate tablet while watching the monitor feels disorienting and hard to adjust to2020-12-01
- Pulling out the tablet is too much hassle, and looking at the screen while moving the hand is hard to learn2015-02-21
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 25 complaints
- Couldn't tell whether Wacom-labelled software applied to other brands' tablets2026-06-22
- Tablet stops being detected after sleep until the driver is restarted2026-01-08
- Tablet defaults to Absolute mode, so it must be switched to Relative to act as a mouse2023-11-02
- Putting the pen down to type full words becomes cumbersome, interrupting creative flow2022-12-01
- Tablet isn't recognized on wake, so user must unplug and reconnect it2022-06-26
- No scroll wheel, so zooming in Inkscape and KiCAD is difficult2022-02-06
- Tablet spans all screens, so small movements jump too far on the middle monitor2021-05-18
- Tablet settings are lost after every reboot, so they must be set up again2021-04-03
- Drawing on a separate tablet while watching the monitor feels disorienting and hard to adjust to2020-12-01
- Needs an awkward adapter box and special cables to connect to computers2020-09-06
- Writing on a blank desk surface with results on a screen feels unnatural and dislocated2020-05-22
- Touch features are effectively unusable in Photoshop because they only send keyboard shortcuts2020-02-07
- Keeps nagging users to enable analytics tracking and is hard to fully stop2020-02-05
- Experience Program opt-out is hidden deep in menus, with evil defaults set to on2020-02-05
- Hard to draw accurately without seeing what is being drawn under the pencil2019-06-03
- Running out of fingers, so right drag and middle click need awkward alternatives2019-02-08
- Pen pressure randomly drops out and buttons sometimes fail or send wrong input2018-06-05
- Pen input lags so badly the tablets are unusable2017-03-14
- Cintiq display lags noticeably when drawing2016-01-05
- Apps using Wacom pen input feel laggy when writing or drawing2015-05-24
- Pulling out the tablet is too much hassle, and looking at the screen while moving the hand is hard to learn2015-02-21
- Large rubber tip makes writing and drawing thin lines hard2013-10-22
- Drivers wait months, then break on distro kernel updates; compiling modules requires hunting hints across websites2012-08-30
- Took about 40 minutes to get used to the tablet2011-09-24
- Cannot scroll horizontally and vertically at once; must drag fingers too far before scrolling starts2010-07-28