Recently I’ve been looking for creating a portable gamedev station, because I refuse to buy a (another) laptop for game-jams and out-of-home development. I need something able to run Unity/Godot, Krita and sometimes Blender. I already own a Steam Deck, and I thought it could be the solution. Installing this Huion tablet was kinda problematic since drivers are not made for Arch Linux based distros, but OpenTabletDriver via Flatpak made the day. Also Krita works quite nice!
Deck also serves as second screen to hold a mandatory htop and evaluate the performance.
Disclaimer: draw made by my girlfriend, I’m not that good yet. You can find her at ypsilenna.art.
Glad you found a working driver for the tablet! There are drivers available through aur, but they mention they’re deliberately out of date because the newer drivers won’t support older devices. Looks like quite a mess to identify the newest driver that would work with your device, and that would be on top of needing to find a good way to permanently install it with the deck’s locked down file system.
Major problem was drivers are made to run under Ubuntu/Debian, but not under ArchLinux, so after trying them without success, I decided to go for OpenTabletDriver and it worked nice!