Post #786074

2026-03-20 21:22 UTC

With all respect to the impressive work, I am still convinced that if someone really really needs photoshop over gimp, they should pay it and accepta windows as a necessary evil. Honestly 90% of those convinced they actually really really need it are just reluctant to learn gimp. Which is understandable, because they don’t have the time. But in that case they also don’t have the time to do all of this.

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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-03-20 21:46

I agree with this 100%, if you need Photoshop then you also need Windows or Mac, the things that Gimp/Krita can’t do are probably less than what you might lose by random bugs going this route. Most people who use Photoshop don’t need it though, and could do 100% of the things they do in either Gimp or Krita. But if your livelyhood is on the line, having a dedicated Windows partition or disk is way easier to maintain in the long run.

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@faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 2026-03-20 23:47

Yeah, my house is completely linux except for one windows machine. I need to be able to open other people's Adobe files for editing, and that's just not reliable outside of windows/mac. But, if I was only working on my stuff and didn't have to integrate into outside workflows, I wouldn't be so adverse to switching to GIMP or Krita.

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