Brand name -> Low quality, highly mentioned -> High quality, rarely mentioned
Photoshop-> GIMP -> Krita
Windows -> Debian-family/Ubuntu/Mint -> Fedora
I almost feel like a religious Zealot when I teach people that Krita>>>GIMP, Fedora>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Debian-family. Its unpaid work, its moral work. People shouldn't have to suffer with low quality products because something was popular a few years ago.
[1] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-...
I haven't heard that story before. Got any references?
I mostly use it for development - backends and data/spark mostly, nothing lower level. What does fedora do better? Is it something that was introduced in later releases?
Fedora will usually push major Linux changes before other distros; systemd, wayland, cgroupsv2, btrfs, etc.
What's difficult about Ctrl-Shift-A? If it's a problem for you, it's easy to change the keyboard shortcut. You can also just click away. GIMP certainly makes some things unexpectedly challenging, but that seems like a strange example to pick.
I use Gimp for photos (layers and such) . It wasn’t intuitive but I know how to use it now: I have Krita on an android tablet with a stylus for painting (it’s brushes are amazing) and frankly it’s pretty fun to use.
Using open source can be “free” but if you use something a lot they alway need donations.
NO! STOP!
Seriously, don't spread rumors. Debian "Stable" has bugs and issues that up-to-date distros have solved.
The word "Stable" has 0 correlation with bug-free. It is entirely meaning "outdated/old" and used for bug consistency, not OS stability.
Debian-family will have you running into hardware issues, peripheral issues, software conflicts, and using the terminal to update/install things.
I used to think Linux was cheap/knockoff Windows.... No, that was just Debian-family. Fedora is better than Windows.
Most people havent been using linux for decades, and Fedora takes care of things you 'deal with'.
> The hardware, software, peripheral comments seem odd or at least about seven years out of date,
Sorry dude, this is just wrong. You literally could not run Nvidia GPUs on Debian last year due to Kernel 5. Your ignorance doesnt make this problem go away. Any new laptop + debian is a disaster.
"Don't use Nvidia, don't use laptops, learn the terminal, its not that hard to upgrade X, its not that hard to install Y, its not that hard to change Z setting"- Debianer
"Faster, feature rich, less bugs, things just work.
Debian-family will have you running into hardware issues, peripheral issues, software conflicts, and using the terminal to update/install things.
I used to think Linux was cheap/knockoff Windows.... No, that was just Debian-family. Fedora is better than Windows."
OpenSUSE >>> Fedora >>>> Debian Family
It exists !
This is the problem, people are recommending Debian-family for desktop.
I don't think people are really talking about server linux, that is almost a solved problem.
I think Debian sid is underappreciated as a decent rolling release distro. I get that Debian doesn't advertise it that way, but it virtually never breaks for me.
A frequent issue with FOSS is that they can handle a variety of edge cases because some technical person needed it once and went through the trouble of implementing it, but they offer a subpar experience at basic cases.
They'll add a feature because it was in the bug tracker and then say "it's done," and you need to hold a committee for 6 months in the forum to change anything in it. Meanwhile a proprietary app made by 1 person will gain 30 different niceties to the basic feature in 1 week.
It's just very hard to imagine how an application that existed for 20 years can't select multiple layers at once or reorder its brushes. It almost feels like abandonware at this point, despite them getting new features from time to time.
The problem is that Krita/GIMP have many features that very few people use. Like you have digital artists who don't need CMYK, but the entire application needs to support it. Or you have people who want to write text on images. Or people that want to do photo manipulation. Or people who need to make assets for games. Or even doing something weird like saving a PNG without pre-multiplied alpha.
So whenever you compare it with something else, you're able to point out to all these features they accumulated through the years.
But if you started making an app today for a specific use case, in 1 month you would be able to add features that these applications have lacked for decades, and these will be just the first features you'll be able to think of.
So it's always this strange feeling where an application clearly has had a lot of work put into it and yet seems to lack something extremely basic you would expect to find in an application that has had a lot of work put into it.