Early Valve was totally pro Windows tech. Back when HL1 launched, it was the first idTech-derived game with a Direct3D renderer out of the box (yes, Doom95 existed but that wasn’t the default, DOS was). OpenGL was still a massive force on Windows and yet Valve decided that what their fork of GLQuake needed was a Direct3D renderer.

Valve’s stance only changed after Microsoft’s attempt to force Windows Store on everyone and Valve’s subsequent “Faster zombies” experiment (because DirectX was stagnant as well).

It’s yet another development branch, this time for beta testing.

Ive Been using KDE Plasma after upgrading Debian which it now officially supports but I’ve been experiencing crashes and bugs… This surprises me on a Debian machine.

Doesn’t surprise me. Debian’s definition of stability is “stays the same”, not “free of bugs”. In Debian Stable packages are frozen and only severe bugs are allowed to be fixed which doesn’t necessarily mean crashes but security risks.

Then there is Debian Unstable. The name already says it. It’s unstable, it’s the development branch.

For some time Ubuntu was the middle ground of a regular, bugfixed snapshot of Debian Unstable but that Snap infested POS is no longer suitable for regular users.

Rich people are only socialist until someone tries to redistribute their wealth. It’s all an act.

That looks like Bazzite Desktop with a different name. Even the contributors overlap.

FAQ says: “Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora all came in at different times, the result of organic growth. Don’t overthink it” … Very helpful.

Most people first installing Linux will dual boot to try it out first before fully committing

Good look having a newbie set up a dual boot system in times of BitLocker. Chances are they end up with single boot Linux because they cannot downsize the encrypted Windows partitions.

imo ubuntu is a good recommendation.

The reality is that SteamOS shaped the majority of developments for home users.

They expect to just get the stuff that’s on Flathub even if they don’t even know what Flathub is. Facts are:

• Out of the box Flatpak support has been banned by Canonical.
• Ubuntu 25.10 shipped with broken Flatpak support. That was known before release but Flapak is in the unsupported Universe repository and bugs in Universe software are not release blocking.
• Juggling PPAs is complicated.

Fact is also: Because software in Universe is not supported, whether or not a community member backports bugfixes is a coin toss. Mint, pop_OS, Zorin, etc. are just as affected by this and as such software used may contain severe security issues.

Rules of thumb I use:

• Good upstream support, so not a hobby distribution by guy or two
• No reliance on add-on repositories that can mess the OS up like RPMFusion, PackMan, EPEL,…
• App store-like software management. Users shouldn’t have to see traditional package management if they don’t explicitly look for it. Default repo and Flathub is enough for the vast majority of people.
• Good internationalization. Languages other than English shouldn’t be an afterthought (even SteamOS falls into this trap in desktop mode)
• Plasma Desktop because that’s what regular users are most likely to know or at least heard of or seen in videos about SteamOS
• No Ubuntu or derivatives (bad support by Canonical and derivatives fighting an uphill battle)

Currently that means Fedora KDE. I did not yet try Kinoite or Bazzite myself but I do like the download assistant on the Bazzite website that guides users through picking the correct ISO.

So standard Audi driver cruising speed.

Regular cuising speed here in Germany (I assume, no idea what a mph is in real units.)

I think you’ve got that backwards.

No, I made the factually true clarification of “Yes, the focus shifted to painting a bunch of years ago but Krita still started out as “KImageShop”. There are many image editing features available”

Not liking the name of the software I use and saying your preferred application is superior is better because it’s prettier are emotional arguments.

I made a technological argument about GTK the lack of proper cross-platform compatibility and that has absolutely nothing to do with prettiness.

That you like software that insults people with disabilities is another matter but you cannot with a straight face claim that I did not make factually true arguments about image editing capabilities, technological downsides of GTK, and later the availability of certain plugins.

I stated that Krita doesn’t do what I need it to do at the moment but would consider switching to it if it did.

Nope, not in the comment I replied to:

And I did not respond to you personal preferences stated in https://lemmy.world/comment/20267684. I made a clarification about the image editing capabilities. I did not quote the rest and I don’t care about your personal preferences but at that point you were seemingly already emotionally riled up, so you did no longer grasp this detail.

I made my point about the technological side I wanted to make. You now make it emotional. I’m muting this thread now.

And it’s really weird for you to get this defensive when both applications are FOSS.

I made a factual clarification and you were the one who got weirdly emotional after that.

Most of Ubuntu is obsolete the day it’s released because of how Ubuntu is structured: the supported Main repository and the unsupported Universe repository (unsupported by Canonical and entirely relying on community members that backport bug fixes in accordance to Canonical’s strict version freeze rules).

So it’s a coin toss if Universe packages get updates at all and if they do in which time frame. Packages in Universe also are not release blocking, so breakages known ahead of release there are waved through, as happened only very recently with 25.10 and it’s broken Flatpak support.

So the majority of packages are unsupported and Mint insists to build a newbie targeting distribution out of this and carry ancient packages around for years. The Mint team is already having their hands full with replacing Snap software with their own deb packages, so they don’t have the capacity to deal with all Universe packages. Probably they hope that software for their user base gets updated by an unpaid Ubuntu community member and that unfixed packages are simply not used by their users.

I think it’s the moral duty of us more knowledgeable people to discourage the use of Mint. If someone wants a Mint distribution, better use LMDE. Otherwise something like a Fedora Spin is probably currently the best newbie friendly option these days.

Do Americans not have FritzBox routers for that crap to be the most popular router?

Either way, the GIMP is better suited even if it’s uglier.

No, not for all use cases outside of painting. I listed a couple, you ignored them. Using GTK on non-Gnome systems is an objectively worse experience other than mere looks. GTK’s brain dead file pickers for example. Absolutely unusable.

https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion and https://github.com/Acly/krita-vision-tools don’t exist for Gimp either (I know of two that work with cloud services but not local).

I’m not going to tell others it’s designed for something it’s not.

“Yes, the focus shifted to painting a bunch of years ago but Krita still started out as “KImageShop”. There are many image editing features available” is an objectively true statement I made. People saying that Krita is not suitable at all for image editing are in the wrong. Krita handles both editing and painting.

it’s not going to become my main tool for photo editing.

That’s fine and I moved on from Gimp.

Sometimes companies gradually reduce the usefulness of the free product to incentivize people to pay.

If they’ll at some point revert to the old Affinity business model, there is really not a downside, isn’t it? Pay for Affinity and get to use Affinity is what V1 and V2 already did. But the comment by Neon Nova was about the pricing of Canva’s AI service and the cost of that is completely irrelevant to “traditional” Affinity users because we’re not interested in that feature anyway and – at least right now – they rule out any subscription model for Affinity itself.

They may do this.

Well, that’s speculation and reduction of the Affinity feature set is a completely different matter anyway. While I’m not fully on board with the GUI changes – changing canvas size has been moved to a weird sub menu, for example – but in my view I got a major upgrade for free that also reduced the disk footprint from 9GB to 3GB (Mac version, didn’t look at the size on Windows before uninstalling V2). So at this very moment it’s a useful upgrade for people who used V2 anyway.

Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today.

Editing features were not removed, so it’s still a capable image editor, formal focus or not.

not sure what method you tried, but I was able to get V2 running via Lutris using the guide in this repo

Relies on a patched variant of Wine, so hardly “works great with Proton/Wine”. I tried V3 with regular Proton and the installer didn’t even run.

I was really hoping for Linux support some day.

I hope with easy access to Affinity V3, someone in the FOSS world will now reverse engineer the Affinity file format. The only 3rd party solution for Affinity files I’m aware of is Photopea but that may just as well be a version of Affinity Photo running in some VM on the server to convert the files to PSD to then edit the files from there.

People keep saying Krita is a great alternative to GIMP, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but photo editing is not its focus at all.

That’s not exactly true. Yes, the focus shifted to painting a bunch of years ago but Krita still started out as “KImageShop”. There are many image editing features available and unlike Gimp, it A) works across all major PC operating systems equally (and Android), B) uses an up to date toolkit and doesn’t lag behind by years (Gimp only recently adopted GTK3), C) doesn’t user headerbars, and D) isn’t named after “a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment”.