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It's awesome that the Linux version is distributed right on the website as an AppImage next to the Windows and MacOS downloads. I very much appreciate software that doesn't require me to wait for a third party maintainer to get around to building it for every distro or require me to add a new repo to a config file somewhere just to use the latest version.
You are in the target group for Arch Linux. Highly recommended.
In this increasingly "Software as a Service" world, it's nice to have a good alternative where you actually own the software you are using. Being FOSS is just icing on the cake. Huge respect to the team behind Krita, and the KDE community as a whole.
While I share your appreciation of Krita and FOSS in general (long live Gimp and Inkscape), I have to point out that there are good commercial software that are not a total subscription rip-off (I'm looking at you Adobe). Here are some I know of and have used (bugs and limitations and everything): - The Affinity suite - Corel Painter and perhaps a few others. They do their job of paying their developers, cultivating…
I use Pixelmator (Pro) on macOS. Flat fee (buy to use), though I use it for basic things.
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You are in the target group for Arch Linux. Highly recommended.
Not if you want to run more versions side by side including betas, if you are a professional you don;t update your tools mid-project and pray it will be fine.
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Its a painting program not an image editing program. they dont compete.
Oh but they do. If Krita had just a couple more filters, GIMP would be basically obsolete. Out of the photo manipulation I do on Linux, more than 90% I do in Krita.
That's got a tonne of filters.
In this increasingly "Software as a Service" world, it's nice to have a good alternative where you actually own the software you are using. Being FOSS is just icing on the cake. Huge respect to the team behind Krita, and the KDE community as a whole.
While I share your appreciation of Krita and FOSS in general (long live Gimp and Inkscape), I have to point out that there are good commercial software that are not a total subscription rip-off (I'm looking at you Adobe). Here are some I know of and have used (bugs and limitations and everything): - The Affinity suite - Corel Painter and perhaps a few others. They do their job of paying their developers, cultivating…
I actually ended up more heavily switching to Krita though, just because I could install it on machines that weren't "mine" without worrying about the license, and it was enough for my purposes in most cases.