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The Other Way To Fight Software Rental
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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I don’t work in graphics professionally, but there’s nothing I need to do that can’t be handled by Skribus and Gimp.
WRT rented software, that while model gives me the heebie jeebies. I don’t trust anything to be around forever, so I definitely want my own copy.
I don't know about Skribus but I do know Gimp isn't comparable to photoshop for the professionals.
There's a learning curve, granted. The photographers I know who use Gimp prefer it. YMMV.
I don't doubt that those that choose to use it prefer it. What I see time and again is someone will try it, find it missing features they want/need and revert back. I encourage the use of GIMP and other FOSS where I can. It's just not a one to one drop in.
Agreed that it's not a drop-in replacement. I get that professionals don't often have time to learn new software and prefer to stick with what they know. But if they have the time and motivation, they can save some money as well as supporting FOSS.
As far as photography goes, I've never needed anything like Photoshop or Gimp, I do fine with just Darktable and DigiKam (YMMV).
My personal preference is Seashore for Mac, but I haven't used macOS in a few years (not entirely by choice but because my uni is largely Windows based and it became too much to keep up with how to integrate into the ecosystem).