Remember, boys and girls, Steam bringing its monopoly to Linux is a victory, but wanting literally any other closed source software is “pathetic”.
Yet another reminder that the worst thing about Linux is its users.
Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux
space_iio@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Just use gimp?
Pathetic to simp for closed software like that
Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
To play devils advocate: please name me an entire open source list of alternatives for each part of affinity studio/adobe suite.
For bonus points, all programs should be mutually agreed by other people as “the best not Adobe” and for extra extra points, they should all be part of a studio package for ease of installation for creatives
Now if someone made these demands in an open source thread they’d probably get a new asshole ripped open for being entitled with such requirements for free software. Instead, someone is saying they’d pay for affinity Linux software that meets this criteria but youre telling them to use open source which is not helpful.
Don’t get me wrong, open source is great. I do use gimp but i still need alternatives to affinity studio and it would’ve made moving to Linux much easier if i could use affinity on Linux.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 days ago
I tried again and again to do the things I need to do with gimp but it still lacks many features zthe ones it does have are hard to use. Sometimes it’s not about ideology but about needing to get shit done.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Tried Gimp 3.0?
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 days ago
Just for maybe an hour or so, haven’t had time for more. It seems a bit better but still too different from everything else to assume people can „just“ use it instead of the solution they are familiar with.
Gimp really needs the kind of in-depth UI/UX redesign that blender got with 2.8.
mtchristo@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Don’t try to do client work bound to a deadline on gimp. Because the stress will make you close gimp at the simplest inconvenience. That’s what happened to me. But trying to work with it on my free time. And installing the photogimp addon helped alot. Gimp still has a long way to go.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I had only read that there were changes under the hood and also in the UI/UX. I hadn’t tested it yet and thought I’d just ask. It could have been that you had also only used the older versions and now there might have been changes.
Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 1 day ago
You know, downcasting and/or insulting people just because they don’t live up to your personal standards is a pretty shitty thing to do.
renard_roux@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Gimp is a pile of garbage, please don’t recommend people use it.
It needs a full rewrite (preferably by others) for it to function like a modern digital image editor.
The name is just a nugget on the shitpile.
Novocirab@feddit.org 2 days ago
People with your attitude are a significant reason why people decide against Linux. It’s doing Microsoft a service.
space_iio@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.
Consumers don’t make software, developers do.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 days ago
Well, are you a developer?
I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.
samwise_gamgee@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Developers don’t have to be so arrogant. In fact stuff like this pushes other developers away too.
Not to mention from what I’ve heard GIMP just doesn’t compare to the paid options for professional work.
Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Not true. There are tons of nice developers out there.
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Developers make software because they want to, or because they are paid to.
Consumers can use free software because it fits their needs, or they can pay for software if the free options don’t suffice.
Consumer demand for paid software drives paid software development.
You claim to be an open source developer, cool. There are people who are not developers who can’t contribute code but still want software. Sometimes that software needs to be paid because some free options aren’t “there” yet. Yes they could pay or donate to open source developers, but they can also tell a company they want to pay for linux software which is what this thread is about, in a community that isn’t focused on open source software