• Lemmylemmylemmy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

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      Blender 3D, Krita, and Gimp have been the pillars of my creative life. And since last year November I’ve been running Linux.

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        1 year ago

        yeah but gimp is kind of… not great. I’m not sure how I managed to use it as a teenager 20 years ago lol.

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          I’m not sure how I managed to use it as a teenager 20 years ago lol.

          Probably because the interface was a lot more intuitive back then. I’ve taught myself Inkscape, but the latest versions of GIMP utterly defies me.

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          Perfectly. It runs perfectly. Blender is pretty much at home on Linux, and rendering with cycles is a little faster than on Windows.

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        In a software ecosystem where almost every program or site you interact with expects some form of steady cash flow in a combination of subscription paywalls, pervasive surveillance, and intrusive ubiquitous ads then I think it does.