Oh yeah. I forgot I have an Epic account.

On a more professional/advanced level I agree.

But for average users, they accomplish 90% identical tasks, but Krita, while less mature, is more intuitively designed (superiorly designed I would argue), and uses better algorithms for things like select & fill.

Also Krita is less ugly. Sorry, I’m notoriously shallow.

Krita > Gimp

PopOS (scroll down to the “Pop_OS with Nvidia” link).

It is tailored for Nvidia cards, is Debian(Ubuntu) based, & super friendly for new users.

EDIT: Here’s a link to the 24.04 release that provides only the Cosmic desktop environment (no X11, no gnome or kde). This is what I use, but it’s in alpha so user beware.

Oh my goodness, thank you for reminding me that’s in my library.

Gog link

So what you’re saying is, the core problem is Capitalism. As usual.

Happy Spooky Season! Be sure to read the manual.