• Lemmylemmylemmy@lemmy.world
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    There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

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      Blender 3D, Krita, and Gimp have been the pillars of my creative life. And since last year November I’ve been running Linux.

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        yeah but gimp is kind of… not great. I’m not sure how I managed to use it as a teenager 20 years ago lol.

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            Only if you already know how to use all its features and how to deal with all its quirks. Let me tell you trying to use it without having ever used it before it’s not easy

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              I’ve been using Photoshop for years that’s why I can’t get into gimp I keep trying to use PS shortcuts. It’s the same with Da Vinci resolve, it’s a great video editing software but I can’t shake the premiere mindset.

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          I’m not sure how I managed to use it as a teenager 20 years ago lol.

          Probably because the interface was a lot more intuitive back then. I’ve taught myself Inkscape, but the latest versions of GIMP utterly defies me.

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          Perfectly. It runs perfectly. Blender is pretty much at home on Linux, and rendering with cycles is a little faster than on Windows.

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        In a software ecosystem where almost every program or site you interact with expects some form of steady cash flow in a combination of subscription paywalls, pervasive surveillance, and intrusive ubiquitous ads then I think it does.

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      generally better-working

      Generally? I know there’s a lot of FOSS fanboys here and I am a FOSS fan myself, but let’s not be fanatic and kid ourselves - I wouldn’t say FOSS software is “generally” better working. There are perhaps a few cases where the FOSS version is better, but that’s more the exception than the rule.