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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.
I usually just "Open with AppImageInstaller" when I download them, it pops up and asks if you want to run once or integrate. When you get a new version you can right-click the old one's shortcut/icon and AppImageInstaller's integration give you a "remove from system" type option.
I use Cura as an AppImage, FreeCAD, Lens (Kubernetes "IDE") Zettlr, and a few others as AppImages. It's really clean and convenient.
It really upsets me when I find tools I want only have snaps, because like any sane person, I kill snapd the second I install an Ubuntu system (Laptops) and I run Manjaro on my desktop so snapd isn't going anywhere near it.
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You can actually install Krita from the Windows Store, it's the same version
Not everyone wants to use the Windows Store, for multiple reasons. There's no reason to scare users away from independent software distribution.
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…
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Not everyone wants to use the Windows Store, for multiple reasons. There's no reason to scare users away from independent software distribution.
There absolutely is a reason. Microsoft's reason. Scaring users away from independent software distribution means more people will use the Windows Store.
Note the red message about how to run the installer on Windows despite the SmartScreen popup. Microsoft really needs to do something about the whole SmartScreen mess if even properly signed, popular and trusted open source tools like Krita require such a "how to get around the SmartScreen popup" note in their installation instructions.
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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.
Doesn't krita have a plugin for gmic? That's got a tonne of filters.
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Its a painting program not an image editing program. they dont compete.
If there's something that GIMP can do that Krita can't, I never encountered it in over two years of using it for front end development and graphic design work.