Okay but reverse engineering is no longer under any protection because no ip

Open source is effectively no different than public domain in this circumstance. You don’t have less rights

Making source available suddenly makes it free of copyright

Coops are companies that are worth championing in a capitalist setting, no? While money and capitalism is ever prevalent and seemingly necessary to interact with for survival, it’s good to have an option like a coop. Or actually an open source based coop.

And we can be hopeful for companies to have solid principles where if they are accused of genocide that they reflect on their actions instead of firing, and hope for a future where that’s the expectation instead of apathy.

It’s the minority report wtf

Tariffs apply when they arrive at port, not when you order. Yours might not ever show up because if they don’t pay the tariffs by EOD after arriving at port they get destroyed.

Pretty much every filter I need from PS like levels, curves, unsharp mask, blurs, etc are there and I even get all of my layer styles. If you were familiar with photoshop circa cs3 era I honestly think it’s just better, but I’m a Linux user and software engineer, not a professional graphic designer or photo manipulator

I avoided it for so long and just used photopea online instead because I thought krita was just for drawing and I don’t do that. I’m sure it’s fantastic for that but I don’t draw and was so used to photoshop I didn’t imagine it’d be basically a better version of it and written in QT, but I was pretty surprised at how it’s just that

Ah you’re right, it just cannot happen with a steam machine.

I guess all valve has to do is release steam machines again and then what? Suddenly the year of the Linux desktop isn’t here?

That’s fair, but those users seem to not know what they want: they think posting it will fix the problem. It won’t, we have discovered with valve that money is the problem in FOSS. Turns out if you just pay people shit gets done in Linux. We should focus efforts to get money flowing to GIMP, not laying blame on the existing users who don’t care. It’s literally not their fault, it’s the lack of funding which is why Linux isn’t more popular.

Then maybe we shouldn’t be complaining about GIMP’s UI and instead be giving them money :D It seems like that’s how you fix Linux, not posting “can’t make circle tho” or “it isn’t like Photoshop and I refuse to use Krita tho”

I’m just bringing it to the main thread topic: GIMP often has complaints that it isn’t like Photoshop. Well, Krita is. So what’s the point of complaining about GIMP anymore? Just complain about Krita please. Let GIMP do its own thing with the people that care about it and let Krita be the Photoshop replacement that everyone desires. I use Krita instead of GIMP because I am very used to Photoshop—I don’t complain about GIMP because it’s literally pointless when I have a tool I enjoy.

Maybe, but people who demand volunteers to provide more labor than they are willing to also are the problem. You don’t seem to grasp the nature of volunteering. It isn’t meant to serve you—volunteers do what they want when they want to because you won’t do what they want. They have your same frustrations: I want it to do X! So they do it.

I’ll also say this: arguments like yours have been used for decades while Linux is getting more and more popular. Maybe, just maybe, you’re wrong.

Yall just use Krita if you want a photoshop replacement on Linux and then stop complaining about gimp please. Krita draws circles exactly like photoshop please just use Krita and leave the gimp people alone

Valve sells all of its computers with Linux on it, no?

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How much do you donate to FOSS?

Edit: lol people want unpaid labor and aren’t willing to put money where their mouth is. “Yall ain’t volunteering hard enough!!”

It’s open source. Volunteer your labor, time, advocacy, or financial assistance if you want your voice heard or continue to hope someone else does it.

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Google results are dog trash. Bing results are dog trash.

It’s gonna stay free forever, you’re totally not externalizing those costs to someone else. You can’t break the laws of thermodynamics

You know what they say about when you don’t pay for a service…