…and some Linux users to professional art/design for living.

Having Krita as basic image editing is doable. However, if you actually use them professionally, you’ll realize that Krita is definitely not alternative to those.

Krita is a first-class painting software, and even its current development is more closer to be Clip Studio Paint alternative, like having comic layer, webtoon layout, etc. The dev regularly observate Clip Studio Paint development.

Affinity Photo is actually easier to use than any alternative, including Photoshop and even GIMP. Its base system also much more faster than Photoshop, GIMP, and even Krita.

People are not tolerating to the regime.

We are helping individual to contribute on open source project.

We should punish the government, but not individual participation in global community.

It seems your context is specific. If a country is actively hostile against other countries, occupying territories, forbidding people to visit the dangerous area is a common sense.

Making individual user to not be able to contribute to GitHub literally does not do anything towards the regime. In fact, it’s just making the regime to make alternative platform that controlled by the government to censor the voice. The people basically living on their own bubble and potentially disconnected to the world.

Oh, outside Western sphere (including my coountry), there are a lot of tech entusiast that also a Microsoft "fans, "the same way Apple fans are exist.

Also, in my experience, despite I hate Microsoft, I found so many niche open source project that almost never in any English FOSS discussion. Especially, project that belongs to Indonesian, Chinese, or Japanese FOSS community. Example: video player with Japanese learning capabilities, video downloader for specific Chinese video hosting, or anime tracker with Chinese site as its database.

I wish FOSS community will provide alternative to social experience and recommendation like GitHub. With ActivityPub :)

Sanctions does not work, the regime still stays while average people suffers and even it harder to even escape the country. North Korea still exist. Belarus still exist. Eritrea still exist.

American sanctions also only targeted towards anti-America countries. If the regime is pro-America, it’s not gonna be sanctioned.

If you actually support democracy, let’s support the people by giving them platform in the international community. Making them be able to showcase their voice without hijacked by external political force.

Majority of area in the world does not recognize it as negative thing.

Even for English, English itself is diverse language. Singaporean English, Indian English, Asian English, definitely not negative in all of them.

Forcing one standard of language as a universal is a bad precedent for language diversity.

Those stuff doesn’t even seem remotely same tho, different type of design style.

All kawaii FOSS logos are common Akiba-kei moe logo style.

There’s Mozc, but it’s oudated and no one maintain it anymore.

LibreOffice is good alternative if you are not heavily dependant on unique MS Office features, especially Excel.

OnlyOffice is better if you’re looking for MS Office document compability.

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lol even funnier that this western-centric Lemmy removed my comment about ricing, while actual Linux community CJK countries or English Asia does not recognize it as a slur and use ricing neutrally. Basically reclaims it.

White knight syndrome so much.

Here I am, an Asian, reclaim it to be neutral meaning. I will still use ricing.

Go check any English Asia Linux Group, especially on YouTube and Facebook Group, people are using ricing neutrally.

Language change with time, and making it neutral is totally fine and okay.

What you’re doing here is just yet another instance of Westerner forcing “correct English,” not realizing English is a global language and can develop independently outside US, Canada, or Europe.

Read my comment again :)

Design =/= painting.

Krita is excel at painting and illustrating, and fully alternative to CSP, Medibang, and other painting software.

If you want to use it as general design software, as in layout design, photo manipulation, poster creation, etc, Krita doesn’t even have a lot of comparable features compared to its alternative simply because it was not designed as design software.

Krita is only usable for basic design stuff. (EDIT: DESIGN =/= PAINTING)

It’s mainly alternative to CSP, Medibang, and other painting software.

Definitely not Adobe Photoshop or Affinity Photo alternative.

Unfortunately, none of them are as easy to use and full featured as Affinity softwares.

As much as I love FOSS, Affinity dev did a great job to enhance UX for first-timer, easier than Adobe or FOSS alternative.

Not to mention, so many new feature than any competitor doesn’t have yet.

The closest one in usability and innovation is Inkscape.

GIMP, Scribus, and Krita, are not even close. (Krita is not even direct alternative to them)

I regularly uses Affinity software, Krita, and GIMP.

Affinity software is way better designed and more feature-packed for graphic design. Affinity software avoids a lot of complexity of Adobe and make it easier for newcomer.

GIMP is not even close.

Krita on other hand is only suitable for basic image editing, not full-blown design software. It’s created for drawing-related stuff after all… You only can recommend Krita for people that looking for Clip Studio Paint, Medibang, or ibis Paint alternative.

31000 on each direction.

Regarding the interface: Krita is heavily designed to match artist workflow around the world. Here’s the complexity:

Different region, ages, and level of professionality have entirely different of common/standard app.

A lot of comic artist or illustrator that delves in anime/manga/ACG style in Asia use Clip Studio Paint as their main software. People from Western gaming industry often used Photoshop or Procreate. Teenager in Asia often use ibisPaint. PaintToolSAI for lightweight and customizable interface. There’s Rebelle for replicating traditional realistic painting.

Krita tried to cater to all of these people, not just “Photoshop users” that mostly just for image editing.

It also the only FOSS YT-based music player that actually support ruby text lyrics for Japanese.