• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    If literally any Adobe competitor released a product for Linux they’d dominate that niche.

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      11 months ago

      I tend to agree. And people need to realize that Adobe’s secret sauce is not in their apps, it’s in the multi-device interoperability. I love lightroom, but it’s not the photo editing ability (darkroom has that), rather it’s the fact that I can seamlessly work the same catalogue from any device (even if I don’t use their cloud for anything but smart previews).

      I think Adobe would cash in if they supported Linux - for want of a workable alternative, I’d even pay them.

      Music device manufacturers need to support Linux too. NI Maschine (and others) is simply a non-starter…

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      11 months ago

      It really depends, but some tools would really do that. DaVinci Resolve, for example, has a pretty bad Linux distribution support and format, all things considered, and it’s still the go-to video editor for Linux users, despite all of the issues.

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          11 months ago

          They really are, but still leagues behind the features (and online learning material) compared to Resolve. I love both of them, but still, when I need to get to work with video, I still prefer to deal with Resolve’s limitations than to deal with Kdenlive or Shotcut.

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            11 months ago

            Fair enough! My only work with video has been very lightweight stuff and I haven’t needed much else. Shotcut definitely has quirks, though I know it a lot better than kdenlive. Have not played enough with Resolve to comment, though I have it on my list to try when the opportunity presents itself.

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        11 months ago

        I say this as a foss proponent… gimp sucks ass.

        Now, Inkscape is Goat, but Gimp is nigh unusable.

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        11 months ago

        I appreciate GIMP but nah, it’s objectively inferior to Photoshop by a long shot and development is really slow. I mean they’ve only just got to GTK 3.

        It’s comparatively difficult to use.

        Plus they insist on sticking to that infantile name. I don’t know how they’re expecting to get industry support with a name like that.

        Don’t get me wrong I use it every once in a while but damn they’re so far behind it’s a joke. And the worst part is they seemingly don’t want the project to advance.