Thread 462577

What is the catch? And how does it stand against GIMP?

>>462577 (OP)
Affinity > Gimp

>>462577 (OP)
It's infinitely better than gimp. So far the catch seems to be no linux support?
I love this software from the 5 hours I just spent trying it out. I don't know if I trust it but it has basically already replaced other options I used to use.

also wireshark lights up like a christmas tree when those programs are being ran

>>462588
>You cant create memes about zoomers, boomers, women, asians, ...
We are done

Affinity suite got sold because it is not profitable enough to create and sell application software for purely utilitarian purpose. It is not 1999.

This is a death rattle for another software product that some European guys (white, male, pale and stale) built.

It may get shelved in 2-5 years after the Canva execs cannot figure out how to further monetize the user's data. Maybe sold off to the Chinese.

There cannot be a commercial competitor that recreates Adobe or Affinity suite without some buyout grift in the end of it. Same can be said about office suites, operating systems.

Proprietary file formats and SaaS are a long term liability. You don't own projects you store on cloudshit, you don't own project files whose formats are not open.

Open file formats and communication protocols gradually surface and get adapted out of necessity and desperation, but that takes decades, as in like half of your life. Blender will be your general purpose multimedia project editing program in 2064 when all the proprietary competitors gatekeeping the respective tooling and technologies have died.

Graphic designers eat slop.

It's still using raster brushes so no idea what all the adobe killer people are talking about. Inkscape still has better gradient mesh export too.

>>462597
it has a raster version and a normal pixel version?I think it's pretty good.