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Re:Krita in 2018 and 2019 by chupasaurus on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:49AM (#18769148)
It was born as a part of KDE Office Suite which hadn't wide usage. After community of Krita users grew rapidly (for an FOSS piece without marketing) it was separated from the bundle. Also a good boost was a publishing at Steam in the first month of their Software Store.
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Re:Krita in 2018 and 2019 by fyfy18 on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:55AM (#18769169)
The Steam version is a nice way to sell open source software. It has an additional interface designed for tablets, which is open source, but the free builds from krita.org don't include it.
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Re:Krita in 2018 and 2019 by raghukamath on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:46AM (#18770112)
The current steam version is same as the free version, with steam version you get automatic update, The tablet version is Krita Gemini, i think it is the older version, i don't know if it is still on steam, as recently steam version was updated
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Re:Krita in 2018 and 2019 by voltagex_ on Thursday December 27, 2018 @08:34AM (#18769317)
It's also on the Windows/Microsoft Store which means I get auto-updates.
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