Renzatic

I can get by without the vectors, but adjustment layers are a make or break feature for me. They're so important, I don't consider a photo editing app a photo editing app unless they're in there. The good news is that adjustment layers and layer effects are planned for 3.2, which, given the improvements made in the 3.0 release, would finally make GIMP a fairly decent Photoshop/Affinity alternative. The problem is, no one knows how long that'll take. Given their track records, we could probably expect it by 2031 or so.

And it still won't have freaking adjustment layers.

Thems fite words.

NERD NITPICK TIME! Apple's OSes are based off the Mach kernel, which is Unix based. It's Android and Chromebooks that use the Linux kernel.

I have a license for Substance Painter and Designer as well, and I'm running it on Fedora 35 no problem. I could also install it natively through Steam if I want, since I crosslinked my accounts. You're making a mountain out of a molehill here.

No, Steam for Linux is a native app, and hosts native applications. You can use Proton to install Windows apps through it. Plus, Substance Painter and Designer are also available standalone.

Substance Painter and Designer, Quixel Mixer and Bridge, all the games on Steam and GOG with a Linux rev. Steam itself, which is now banking on Linux. It goes on and on...

Nothing I couldn't fix. Computers are computers. They're going to spaz out on you at some point. And Linux being Linux, it can sometimes kick you square in the nuts.

I've been using it for around 5 years now, recently exclusively, and I haven't had any problems with it.

It's less a flat no, more a "we currently have no plans, but never say never." ...I consider it an open invitation to continually bother them about it.

That's one example. Now, is that the exception, or the rule?

Or they could do what Quixel does, and release a platform agnostic .appimage. Or they could do what Adobe does, and just support Redhat. At the end of the day, Linux is Linux. If it works in one, it'll work in them all. What distro to choose isn't really an issue.

From what I gather, snaps are slowly going the way of the dodo anyway, so it's really all academic by this point. There's only one distro out there that supports snaps out of the box, and that's Ubuntu. The rest, even those forked from Ubuntu, are using flatpaks.

That's pretty much Canonical (the people who maintain Ubuntu) vs. Everyone Else. In the end, it doesn't make that much of a difference, since almost all apps available as flatpaks have snaps and vice versa, and it's easy to use them both.

It's the rumored up and coming Mac Pro that I'd keep my eye out on. As is, the M1 Max is performing roughly in the same ballpark as a mobile Ryzen 5900 and 3070M. While not as mind-meltingly amazing as some people claim, it's still sporting some solid performance, and the fact that it's doing it at, what, a 3rd of the TDP as the aforementioned is incredibly impressive. An M1 designed to run in situations where cooling and power efficiency aren't as much of a concern could be a beast of a machine.

I was considering it. Problem is, for the time being at least, you have to have a desktop version of PS or Illustrator to create new files.

Well, it was anyway. Those new M1 chips are ridiculous.

There's already plenty of commercial applications available for Linux. Off the top of my head, there's Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Maya, Houdini. Plus, there's everything on Steam. It's not an FOSS wasteland with nary a paid proprietary app to be seen. It just has very weak support when it comes to graphics design apps. There's nothing stopping anyone from making their application available for Linux.

Linux is controlled, both by the Linux Foundation, and the various distro maintainers.

The other way to look at it is to consider the size of the PC market in general. Linux may only have 2.5% of the that overall market, but that's still tens of millions of people.

If you use Affinity Photo primarily for painting, I'd suggest learning Krita a bit more. It's arguably a better program for that than AP is, though it is weaker for photo editing.

For me, 90% of the software I use is available in Linux, is generally faster here, and the OS doesn't get gummy over time, requiring me to do housework to get things running smoothly again. I have so many more compelling reasons to stick to Linux than I do to go back to Windows. The only thing I'm missing is Affinity Photo and Designer. If I had them, either natively, or through WINE, I'd be ticked freaking pink. But hey, after the Apple event this week, I've decided to sell out, and buy a Mac. I'm still going to push for Affinity on Linux, but I'll have to be an obnoxious hipster about it to fit my new Apple lifestyle.

I was being facetious. Though I am deeply considering a Mac, which does tread on my geek street cred a bit.

I initially tried using the Steam versions, but I got tired of someone popping in scream "HEY WHAT'S UP YOU WANNA PLAY SOME VIDEOGAMES" every time I'd open Steam to fire up Painter, so I just learned how to install it the hard way. If you're as desperate as I was, and can't get Alien to work, all need to do is unpack the rpm file using your archive manager, drop the the Allegorithmic folder you find within inside of /opt on root, create a .desktop file leading to the executable, and drop that in /.local/share/applications in your Home folder, and BAM... :jazzhands: LINUX! ...or you could just install Fedora.

No, the Linux kernel is pretty lean and mean, from what I understand. It does a good job of explaining X11 though.