I had wanted a drawing tablet for many years, although for one reason or another I never purchased one. However, after purchasing Wacom's Bamboo Splash Pen Tablet, I regret not having purchased one sooner. Using it is completely intuitive; hovering above the tablet (a couple of centimeters) moves the cursor around, tapping clicks, while double tapping double clicks (although moving too far from the initial click cancels the double click,) a small amount of pressure usually creates lighter and or thinner lines, while more pressure creates wider and or darker lines (depending on the brush and program you're using.) Keep in mind, I've had this for about a week so I can't really speak for its performance in the long term but I will most likely post an update after six months, sooner if anything goes wrong. I dislike using Windows and Mac OSes, so I can't say anything about the software included with the tablet. I've been using Inkscape (vector graphics software), GIMP (raster graphics software), Mypaint (raster graphics software with brushes that mimic traditional mediums such as sketching pencils, paintbrushes, oil sticks and others), and Aseprite (sprite/animation software) all of which are free and open source. I'm using Arch Linux (x86_64) and installed the drivers by installing libwacom and xf86-input-wacom. I was able to use the tablet as soon as they were done installing with the complete pressure sensitivity. It's set up by default to utilize absolute pointing (the top left of the tablet is the top left of the screen vs relative, which is like a laptop's touchpad.) I don't have a need to change it to a relative pointer, so I haven't looked into where the settings to change that would be located. Before purchasing the tablet, I read several reviews in different places where people had qualms about the nibs wearing down. Although it makes sense that they would wear down, since the nib would need to be softer than the tablet to prevent the tablet wearing down too easily or much worse, ending up with scratches in the tablet surface. A few replacement nibs are included with the tablet and I would much rather replace cheap nibs than a whole tablet. Going back to the title of this review. If you're interested in this tablet, and you've read this much I think you should purchase this tablet. It's fun and easy to use. If you have a problem with the bottom of the pen not being an eraser, you can always map one of the buttons to either undo or to change brush, that way undo is just a click away, or all of your brushes would appear under the cursor, at least that's how a respectable program does things (Mypaint.) In firefox, the button closest to the nib acts like a middle click and the button furthest from the nib is right click. In Mypaint, the button closest to the nib is button 2 and the furthest one from the nib is button 3, if that helps anyone. But I digress, the only reason why you wouldn't want this tablet is because you want a more expensive model. Why would you want a more expensive model? If you want a larger surface area (do they make them larger? I imagine so. I haven't had any problems with running out of room, that's what zoom is for) or if you want more features, such as tilt sensitivity or perhaps even more pressure sensitivity. Maybe those are features that you don't realize you needed until you use them because not having extra features hasn't been a problem. At this price (it's one new game or a few cups of large coffee) you can't really go wrong; you get an amazing, very responsive, and entertaining product.Update (August 8, 2013) Maybe I should have mentioned that I don't use "modern" (bloated) window managers like gnome or kde. I use i3wm, the most amazing and wonderful window manager ever (paired with dmenu and i3status), so I didn't know that gnome has a wacom control icon in its control panel. You can switch between left/right handed, not sure what that would do, exactly. Maybe it would make a difference on a more expensive model with buttons on the tablet. From this control panel thingy, you can easily switch between relative and absolute pointing methods. You can also change which buttons the buttons are mapped to (e.g. change the bottom button to right click, top to middle click or something) and you can also change the pressure 'feel' from this control panel link. If you prefer not to use a window manager with a wacom control built into the control panel, you can easily (kind of) change the absolute/relative setting withing /etc/X11/xorg.conf or the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ files. The Arch Linux's wiki "Wacom Tablet" entry provides updated information on how to change those settings. I should have provided lsusb and xsetwacom info for Wacom CTL-470 earlier but I didn't. Sorry. Better late than never, right?"lsusb" output:Bus 004 Device 002: ID 056a:00dd Wacom Co., Ltd Bamboo Pen (CTL-470)"xsetwacom --list-devices" output:Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen stylus id: 12 type: STYLUSWacom Bamboo Connect Pen eraser id: 13 type: ERASERWacom Bamboo Connect Finger touch id: 14 type: TOUCHWacom Bamboo Connect Finger pad id: 15 type: PAD The output of xsetwacom was very interesting. It kind of makes me wonder if all Wacom tablets can use the pens with the 'eraser' tip but maybe Wacom doesn't install the tip to give its customers a reason to buy a more expensive tablet, hmmm... If I had money to burn, or another tablet with a pen that had the eraser, I'd test this but since I don't, I'll just leave this out there. The tablet still doesn't have any scratches, even though I've left it on the floor next to the bed (to play with it on the laptop) and I also kind of tripped, stepped on the tablet while it was resting on top of a shoe, I didn't put all of my weight, maybe about 30% of it onto the tablet and nothing happened to it. maybe a newer, thinner tablet would have broken, but the tablet is almost like new (except for some hair-width scratches on the shiny bit of plastic that says bamboo, but that's not part of the drawing surface). The nibs do wear out sooner than anticipated but, in Wacom's defence, I am heavy-handed (there's also the aforementioned reasons prior to the update).TLDR: I like it, it works with linux, it's well built, the included software are toys (mypaint, krita, inkscape, gimp are far superior and all free/open source). Also, you can rotate the canvas in mypaint and krita -squeee-!