Well, I use tumbleweed on both my laptop and my main machine. Mainly for coding, compiling, CAD, games. My drawing tablet (Huion) worked without extra setup. Always worked fine, no problems. Dunno what extra packages you needed, so I can’t really say much about the problems you had.

Edit: No wait, I did need some setup for the tablet. Worked without a hickup for the last 5 years, so I kinda forgot.