Keith Reeder

Christ - the arrogance! You have literally no idea whether you're speaking for anyone but you.

"You expect it to be there" does not equate to "all" former PhotoShop users.

Yeah... You've made that up.

You mean, like they currently do with Windows and Mac? And before you changed it, your post also said "If anyone wants anything else then too bad." Funny how that's not OK when they say it about Linux, eh?

And why do you think that is?

Indeed. Tediously self-important, isn't it? As is this self-absorbed paranoia. (I'm an information- and privacy-law professional in the UK - I understand this stuff - and this nonsense is seriously over the top).

He wasn't talking to you, so your indignation is misplaced.

You've answered your own question: are you seriously expecting to be as familiar and productive with Photo in a few hours as you are with PhotoShop after 25 years? Many of us have made the move with no problem whatsoever. It's just a matter of doing it and accepting that there's an unavoidable learning curve associated with getting to grips with a new programme.

Agreed, jmac - the arbitrary application of gimmicky filters is no substitute for quality or ability; nor does it make an otherwise banal image somehow "worthwhile". A pet peeve of mine, too.

Were you given any impression by Serif that this was even being considered?

Serif staff have already made several statements about the likelihood of a Linux port in this thread.

Yeah - big "if", isn't it?

AP has the same level of non destructive editing that the Adobe Camera Raw/PhotoShop combo provides (in fact they use essentially the same design model), and that doesn't seem to have hurt PhotoShop much...

Indeed. I even looked the thing up - putting more effort into it than the OP did - and still came up empty. And it's of note that the OP has "gone dark" since. Troll.

That's a completely unfounded and entirely speculative assumption based purely on your own experience, isn't it?