I want to talk about our gateway products to open source. You know, that one product or software that made us go, “Whoa, this is amazing!” and got us hooked on the world of open source.

What made you to jump ships? Was it the “free” side of things like qBittorrent? Did you even know that some of your programs are open source before you got into the topic?

For me those products were:

  • Android
  • Firefox
  • VLC
  • Calibre

Am thinking to order some merch and I wanna make it more accessible to people unfamilliar with open source culture. Now, am looking for fairly normalized but still underrepresented product – maybe it could serve as a conversation starter and push some people to open source

  • MudMan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Man, that’s a rough entry point. I’ve been waiting for GIMP to get good for decades, and I’ve accepted now it’s probably not gonna happen.

    You’re such a disappointment, GIMP. Blender is right there, why can’t you be more like Blender?

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        1 year ago

        Hah. Yeah, I guess it sucks having learned Photoshop before it was an outright scam, because there is no good alternative.

        Let me caveat that: there’s actually great art software that’s either cheap or free and there are many basic quick photo editing apps. But broad image manipulation and in-depth photo editing? It’s GIMP or nothing, and GIMP is definitely not it.

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      1 year ago

      If you’re still looking, try Krita, it’s a polished and powerful open source image manipulation program.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve tried Krita, but it’s primarily a painting tool, not really a Photoshop alternative for other tasks. It’s very solid for what it’s meant to do, though.

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          Makes sense. I never used Photoshop, so I don’t know how it compares. It’s been good enough for my needs so far.