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Why use that corpo crap to begin with.
Because not everything has an open source alternative.
Especially when it comes to hardware
When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said "Now son, this choice deserves deliberation
Though you could be a doctor or perhaps a financier
My boy, why not consider a more challenging career?"
Heaps of stuff that's positioned as the "alternative of X" feels like garbo. For example when I'm forced to use Pinta editor / GIMP over Photoshop when I'm using Linux. I get the expectation can't be to have feature parity but some of these alternatives feel really poor
Well, to be fair, Pinta is a clone of Paint.NET. It has never claimed to be an alternative to Photoshop.
You also don't like Krita?
Never even heard of it, I'll have to give it a go 👍🏼
Ya I use it all the time. It's a different beast from gimp. To me it felt easier for drawing.
It definitely felt like an improvement over gimp to me when it comes to drawing. In fact I also use it for editing now, but I imagine gimp might be better for that.