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    11 months ago

    If literally any Adobe competitor released a product for Linux they’d dominate that niche.

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      11 months ago

      I tend to agree. And people need to realize that Adobe’s secret sauce is not in their apps, it’s in the multi-device interoperability. I love lightroom, but it’s not the photo editing ability (darkroom has that), rather it’s the fact that I can seamlessly work the same catalogue from any device (even if I don’t use their cloud for anything but smart previews).

      I think Adobe would cash in if they supported Linux - for want of a workable alternative, I’d even pay them.

      Music device manufacturers need to support Linux too. NI Maschine (and others) is simply a non-starter…

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      11 months ago

      It really depends, but some tools would really do that. DaVinci Resolve, for example, has a pretty bad Linux distribution support and format, all things considered, and it’s still the go-to video editor for Linux users, despite all of the issues.

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          11 months ago

          They really are, but still leagues behind the features (and online learning material) compared to Resolve. I love both of them, but still, when I need to get to work with video, I still prefer to deal with Resolve’s limitations than to deal with Kdenlive or Shotcut.

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            11 months ago

            Fair enough! My only work with video has been very lightweight stuff and I haven’t needed much else. Shotcut definitely has quirks, though I know it a lot better than kdenlive. Have not played enough with Resolve to comment, though I have it on my list to try when the opportunity presents itself.

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        11 months ago

        I say this as a foss proponent… gimp sucks ass.

        Now, Inkscape is Goat, but Gimp is nigh unusable.

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          11 months ago

          When was the last time you used it? The newer versions are better and with Gimp 3 there will be many improvements.

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          11 months ago

          There are lots of individual applications that do pretty well in and of themselves (darktable, gimp, krita, etc.) they have varying degrees of niceness. But what Adobe can do has no analogue in Linux land (paid or not) - it’s the multi-device interoperability. It makes for unparalleled workflow. I am not an advocate your Adobe - I really wish there was someone else that did it, and I believe it is something worth paying for. Figma maybe? (but it’s all cloud and was nearly knocked out by Adobe…)

          (FWIW, I’ve never found gimp to be pleasant to use, but that is only my own subjective experience. Others like it and that’s a good thing.)