Never thought of that, I may give it a shot!

No, what I’m saying is that PS has features that simply do not exist in any of the current FOSS apps. How do you replicate smart objects or content-aware fill? How about sky replacement or the camera RAW filter?

Even that isn’t really true. GIMP for example is nowhere near feature parity with Photoshop, not even close. it only just got non-desctructive editing a few months ago, something that Photoshop has had for at least 20 years if not more! The disparity gets much, much worse when you look at filters or tools like content-aware fill.

I would if I knew anything about programming or UI design, but unfortunately I don’t.

Again, you’re operating off your own limited experience. Ask someone who does Excel programming (yes it’s a thing) if LibreOffice compares. It does not.

Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?

I am a professional and have been doing this since… Well, I started with Mac OS 7, let’s put it that way. Krita and Inkscape are like using craft scissors to cut sheetmetal. They’re simply the wrong tool for the job. They are maybe 10% comparable to Adobe apps. Affinity apps are probably 60% or 70% comparable. Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn’t even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

At best they will repurpose certain features to add them to some “pro” (but still web-based) version of Canva at $50/mo. There’s no way in hell we’ll get Linux apps for Affinity. I really wish we would because they are literally the only reason I still have a Windows VM.

Oh, and I use an 8bitdo controller with it and a Rii wireless keyboard and both work fine!

I don’t know, I never really thought about that. I had my previous mobo for about 10 years and at that point it was becoming a problem, but for the first 7 years or so it worked fine. After 7 years there would be a new CPU socket anyway, so it would be a good time to upgrade.

This is my build:

• AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5 GHz 8-Core Processor
• Thermalright Frost Commander 140 BLACK 95.5 CFM CPU Cooler
• Asus TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS WIFI Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard
• TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory
• Silicon Power A60 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card
• Lian Li O11 Air Mini ATX Mid Tower Case
• Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Hardware is very similar to my own build from last fall, except I went with a 7800XT. it’s been running CachyOS since then and works superbly.

I think Elementary OS does what you suggest (Pantheon DE). It’s very focused on simplicity and accessibility.

It’s good, but not comparable to Premiere or Resolve. I’d compare it to Vegas maybe.

After using Proton for a couple years I’ve come around to the POV that private email is a dead end. There was not a single occasion where the sender or recipient of any email was also using encryption. If I want encrypted comms I use Signal. Instead of Pass I went back to using Bitwarden.

The combination of AI, crypto wallet and CEO’s pro-MAGA comments (all within six months or so!) are why I quit Proton. They’ve completely lost the plot. I just want a reliable email service and file storage.

https://proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

Pretty rich coming from Proton, who shoved a LLM into their mail client mere months ago.

You can do that, or you can install Cachy or Bazzite and not have to take any extra steps, not to mention if you need to you have community support from people who are overwhelmingly using it for the same purpose as you rather than greybeards who never leave emacs. I’m not anti-Debian, but for a first-time Linux gamer it really isn’t a great recommendation.

I uses PopOS for a while and liked it a lot, but I’m so used to Arch-based distros that I don’t think I can go back. I may use Cosmic as me DE once it’s out of beta, though.

I doubt s76 will push an update until Cosmic is out of beta, let alone alpha.

Welcome! Based on the GPU I assume you’re into gaming, and Debian is not the optimal distro for that because it’s focused on stability and is not as up-to-date as other distros. Personally I use CachyOS (based on Arch) on my gaming PC and it works very well. EndeavourOS is similar and is also based on Arch — it’s what I use on my laptop. Bazzite (based on Fedora) is another popular gaming distro. If you really prefer Debian you may also want to look at PopOS, which is based on Ubuntu, which is itself based on Debian. You can by all means use Debian if that’s what you really want, but there’s a good chance you’ll run into issues that wouldn’t appear with distros designed for gaming, especially since you have an Nvidia GPU which tend to have driver issues with Linux in general.