 Hello, bonjour, today I'm doing the review of the Gaomon M10K 2018, I appreciate it. It's a small tablet without a display, if you can see it, and it has an interesting price because I saw it around $60 on the internet. But I will do this review on an operating system based on the Linux kernel and for digital painting with Krita and of course with my French accent. That's my quest, if you don't know the channel, to keep a 100% free Libre and open source workflow. I do that since 10 years. What to say, health? I wasn't paid by Gaomon, I only received the tablet and it's not a sponsored video, I have here full freedom. I produced this content because Gaomon collaborated with the Digimon project, they did so because I recommended them to do so and I'm very proud of that. So let's start this review. The tablet comes inside a well-packed white box with a gold logo and the tablet itself is protected by a protective plastic bag. And talking about bag, Gaomon also deliver a bag in the box made of fabrics and I appreciate that because you always need one when you transport the unit or when you store it. So that's a good detail. You also have a tiny bag of thick felt containing replacement nibs and a metal piece to catch them on the stylus. About the stylus, it also comes with one of this felt bag, I like that because it's also convenient for transport here again and it has two buttons, no eraser and also like the tubular shape of it. There is basic documentation and a glove. Perfect. Oh, I almost forgot, there is also a USB cable to connect the unit to your computer. All in all, it's really surprising to see all these tiny bonuses on a tablet at this range of price. That's very cool. The overall design is clearly an imitation of the vacuum intuos tablets. There is no originality here but it works and it's pleasant to watch. The surface is smooth and with a slight texture. That's my favorite type of overlay surface. Not too smooth, not too textured. That's a very good point. The pen feels a bit too lightweight as if it was made of an empty plastic shell. I'm not used to that but I like the shape it has, as I said, tubular and not the shape of a pier. That's good. The tablet is thin and it has a port on the side to connect it to a USB port of your computer. The tablet has 11 buttons and a touch ring. The feeling of the button in general is standard and ok. Just a bit noisy and a bit plastic but that's really a standard with all the tablet I tested. And I really wish in general the brand of tablet took more care about this button. About the driver on Linux, at the first connection on my Kubuntu nothing happened. But I went directly to the Digimen website and downloaded the latest driver, a Debian package. And after that I only had to do a little bit of setup so the Digimen driver could recognize the tablet. For example a quick lsusb command allows to copy the identifier of the tablet. Then after that with this identifier you can create a x11 rule. It's not a long work. Then after a reboot you have the tablet recognized and managed by the xsetvacom command line tool. So don't expect here a graphic user interface. xsetvacom command line tool allows you to control all the aspects of your tablet and it's not really complex. You just need to write the command inside a script file and put this file to auto execute at startup of your system. And you're done. It's something you do only once and then you might tweak along on the way. So I will put all my script and explanation for this tutorial into the description. There is a link to a blog post. And with this script you can assign the surface to a specific display. You can change also all the buttons and you can also change the button on the stylus. The only part that I couldn't get to work is the touch ring thing. So to conclude I will start to speak about what I like and what I like the most is the free and libre driver for this tablet because as you can see once you get this done right the tablet is just working on every application. And then I will continue to speak with a demonstration of an artwork in Krita. I spent like 10 hours not on this artwork but in other artwork in general and I wanted to test this tablet a lot. So the second thing I very like is the price because it counts a lot when you choose a tablet and this one is from the lower price I ever see for a tablet. The content of the box is very rich. There is a glove, there is a lot of gears for doing transport. I very appreciate that. And something that I also very like is the resolution because it's a medium-sized tablet but it has a very precise resolution, more precise than the tablet I own it so far. So even with a large display you can still have some precision and in my demonstration as you can see I can do some line art, I can do some sketching. I just have to zoom a little bit maybe a little bit more than with my large tablet but it works very well. And then I will tell about the surface, the smooth surface. You will not have to replace the nib a lot because it's smooth. That's the feeling I like when I draw. And the design because there is no big branding on the tablet. There is not the brand Gaomon right hand on it and I really like that. It's sober, it looks good and also you can flip it to get a left-handed mode. Not all tablets think about that but there is right-handed, there is left-handed and a lot of left-handed on the artist community. So this is good that this model is versatile and have all of this. So now about the thing that I thought I would have a little problem with it but my opinion shifted during the test. For example there is the lightweight aspect of the stylus after using it for 10 hours. It just feel normal for me now, there is no problem with it. The fact that I couldn't set up the touch dial or the ring, I never set up it on my other tablet either so it's not really a problem. Now this is some specification the tablet doesn't have so the tilt and no eraser when you flip the stylus but same here that's not things that I'm using very often so I can't miss really them. And at last the medium size. I was a bit worrying that I couldn't use this tablet with a 24 or 27 inch display and that was false. The resolution makes it very usable and very versatile with this type of large display. It doesn't mean that I will switch for this tablet. I'm still very very in love with my very big Intuos 4 XL tablet and it will remain my default for a long time I'm sure but I'm very impressed with this medium size and with this resolution. At the end I want to finish on the thing that I dislike about this tablet and it will be mainly about the fact that there is a common line install process and no graphic user interface. I'm used to do that but I know that for other artists if they want just to install a Ubuntu or a Linux Mint and they have to do that. Another point that I wanted to mention is I couldn't find any overlay replacement part on the Gaomon shop so if you scratch your surface and you want to replace it you are a bit on your own. If Gaomon give me a link to a place where you can buy replacement part I will write that in the update or in the blog post companion. My last item on this list is about the durability. It's something that I couldn't test obviously in two days and I don't know how this hardware will behave if I use it that for two years for example. I had some feedback that the plug might become a little bit fragile if you use it very often so just keep that in mind be gentle with it and it should be okay. All in all I'm impressed the surface is okay the pen pressure is okay I can set up almost everything it has a free lib driver and all of that for a very cool price. Bravo Gaomon! Bravo! You will find also on the description a link to a promotional offer by Gaomon. They give me that so there is a special offer one week after the release of the video. I'm not winning any money on this it's only for you. Thank you very much for all the good statistics of the channel. It's because of that there is more and more brand that come to my mailbox and ask for a review and I can ask them a Linux driver and a free lib driver because I'm using only that. So you see how it works. Thank also to the supporter of my webcomic and the channel. Without them I would have no time to do that. You know recording the video, doing the video editing in CAD and live on Linux. All of that takes a lot of time and I'm able to do that because of them. So thank you very much for that. See you later. Bye bye.