Since I spend a fair amount of time complaining about the OS I love, I figure it's only fair to point out success when it happens unexpectedly.
I gave my son a Monoprice 10x6.5" drawing tablet today. It's relatively cheap - about $50. He plugged it in to his Jessie PC and to our mutual surprise, it worked immediately. I told him to fire up GIMP and he is figuring it out now. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. there is no justice, there is just us.