My experience has been the opposite. I built a new PC last year, and only Fedora and Arch recognized the Radeon GPU and the Intel Wi-Fi. Mint was shipping a kernel that was too old to recognize either one.

“Yes, do as I say!”

I miss the days when their slogan was “Don’t be evil”

Nah, every conservative I know hates toll roads with a passion. They want the roads to be taxpayer-funded because that’s what they use as an upstanding member of society, while social programs and public transit should be profitable or shut down because those are for the poors who need to get their act together.

Basically, they think everything conservatives and billionaires rely on should be taxpayer-funded, while everything they don’t need is “for the poors” and needs to either turn a profit or be cut.

Seriously. I hear a lot from the right that public transit, bike routes, and social programs need to be profitable or they shouldn’t exist. With no mention of the roads they drive on every day.

“We’re not anti-union. We’re pro-employee!”

The problem with this country is that the majority of people always think it’s OK if their side does it. My belief that wrong is wrong no matter who does it now gets me labeled as a grifter.

No, the ones who are paying for the energy are the people who live near whatever data centers received the slop requests.

Are the Krita developers paying you to go off the rails like this?

I think you’ve got that backwards.

Not liking the name of the software I use and saying your preferred application is superior is better because it’s prettier are emotional arguments.

I stated that Krita doesn’t do what I need it to do at the moment but would consider switching to it if it did.

I didn’t say the GIMP is better for all use cases. I said it’s better for my use case. And it’s really weird for you to get this defensive when both applications are FOSS.

Some photo editing features were either never added, or they feel clunky to use. Either way, the GIMP is better suited even if it’s uglier.

Krita is a great tool for artists, but I’m not going to force myself to use it instead of the GIMP, and I’m not going to tell others it’s designed for something it’s not. I’ll keep checking in on it, but until it does what I need it to, it’s not going to become my main tool for photo editing.

Krita may have started out as a photo editor, but that’s clearly not its focus today. If I need to edit a photo, I will use a tool better suited for that task, even if that tool isn’t as pretty as Krita.

Yeah, it confused me at first, but now I love it and never want to have to go back to dealing with Device Manager freaking out if I need to move a drive or swap out hardware.

Linux doesn’t have a Device Manager or database like Windows does. It automatically picks the appropriate drivers for the hardware in the system when it boots, based on what drivers are installed. And as others have mentioned, most distros ship generic kernels with all the open-source drivers included.

That’s what I thought. People keep saying Krita is a great alternative to GIMP, Photoshop, and Affinity Photo, but photo editing is not its focus at all.

Isn’t Krita more focused on digital painting than photo editing? I always end up going back to the GIMP because of that even though I use KDE.

I find the package manager clunky.

As someone who generally likes Arch, I feel like this isn’t brought up enough. Every Arch user seems to love pacman, but I find it way clunkier to use than apt and dnf. It’s like they made it cryptic on purpose.

All five times are listed here.

None of that other stuff matters if they’re this incompetent at something as basic as SSL certificates. It’s not dogma. It’s not nitpicking. This is Security 101. I can’t recommend a distro that fails this badly at a basic security task to newcomers.