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Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by Bluestein »

ldargin wrote: post #103
dsign wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 got Corel Painter 2020 for $30 through a Humble Bundle. It's quite enjoyable to use!

Indeed, as featured here: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24667093

(A pity the Corel Draw license in the bundle is for a -subscription- model license.- ... not a lifetime license.)

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by willismichael »

rwmj wrote: post #110

What kind of input devices do people use with this? USB drawing tablet?

Yes. My children use a Wacom tablet with Krita. It was actually less trouble to get it working on Linux than on my MacBook. On Linux I just had to plug in the Wacom table and I was immediately able to start drawing in Krita.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by fanatic2pope »

dsign wrote: post #13
MarcellusDrum wrote: post #4

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…

Most of those products do not run on Linux (or other) FOSS platforms.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by BryanLegend »

fanatic2pope wrote: post #113
dsign wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Most of those products do not run on Linux (or other) FOSS platforms.

Get a real OS!

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by pkaye »

rwmj wrote: post #110

What kind of input devices do people use with this? USB drawing tablet?

Yes you really need one with this kind of program. It emulates pencils, pens and brushes much better. Like the pressure sensitive aspect in particular.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by wadkar »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #67
TheNorthman wrote: post #50

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Arch's Krita was updated to 4.4.0-4 at 2020-10-13 18:23 UTC, approximately 18 hours and 52 minutes ago. While I can't see when the original blog post was submitted, I know this forum post was posted 2 hours ago. Are you sure you would benefit from updating even faster? EDIT: In any case, you could use the AUR package that points directly to the git repo.

Would the AUR let me have the current Krita and the old one installed simultaneously? My experience with repo/package models suggests it very much would not.

I don't think so. It should be possible to install the older version in different prefix (e.g. `./configure --prefix=/opt`) but I don't think AUR supports multiple slots (like portage does) out of the box.

My cursory search on the interweb did not yield any promising results on the Arch wiki either. Happy to be corrected, of course.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by wadkar »

Fnoord wrote: post #26
simion314 wrote: post #22

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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.

That's what Nix(OS) is for :)

While Nix is great - don't forget the venerable portage :-)

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by zanny »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #67
TheNorthman wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arch's Krita was updated to 4.4.0-4 at 2020-10-13 18:23 UTC, approximately 18 hours and 52 minutes ago. While I can't see when the original blog post was submitted, I know this forum post was posted 2 hours ago. Are you sure you would benefit from updating even faster? EDIT: In any case, you could use the AUR package that points directly to the git repo.

Would the AUR let me have the current Krita and the old one installed simultaneously? My experience with repo/package models suggests it very much would not.

If you comment out that your aur build provides and conflicts with krita and install it under /usr/local or some such you can do parallel installs.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by Miraste »

wtetzner wrote: post #36
Complexicate wrote: post #33

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There absolutely is a reason. Microsoft's reason. Scaring users away from independent software distribution means more people will use the Windows Store.

Or it means more people will stop using Windows.

Unfortunately, Android, iOS, and MacOS are the alternatives non-technical people look at, and they're all much worse about installing software than Windows.

Re: Krita 4.4.0

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Post by boudewijnrempt »

VadimPR wrote: post #98
boudewijnrempt wrote: post #19

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It is _beta_. Don't use it for production work! I'm currently paying Sharaf who did the original port to work full-time on fixing Android/ChromeOS issues, but we're not even at the stage where we can think of implementing a tablet-friendly user interface again.

What did you do with it? A Qt Widgets maintainer here looking to hit the mobile as well.

We just made it build, which needed a bit of hacking in Qt, and then some hacking in Krita, but it was doable within the scope of a Google Summer of Code. Of course, the devil is in the details, and that's what Sharaf is working on now.
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