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The weylus tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussion of Weylus, a free tool for turning a tablet or touchscreen device into a wireless drawing tablet or secondary pen display for another computer. The tagged content focuses on a practical reuse project: repurposing an older Surface Pro 3 as a wireless drawing tablet for a Linux desktop, drawing in Krita on the host PC while using the Surface as a mirrored pen display or screenless input tablet. Reported results were mixed, with pen pressure and hover positioning working while pen buttons, palm input, and ergonomics proved less cooperative, making the tag useful for readers weighing similar hardware reuse.
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    Turn a Surface Pro 3 Into a Wireless Drawing Tablet for Linux With Weylus

    An old Surface Pro can still have a useful creative life after its meeting-room days are over. MakeUseOf’s Gregory Gibson describes turning a Surface Pro 3 into a wireless drawing tablet for a Linux desktop, using hardware he already owned and free software. Pen pressure and hover positioning...