How would you compare it to Photoshop and what would you say to a Photoshop digital painter to get them to switch to Krita (or at least try it out for a while)?
Interestingly, Blender was originally proprietary, and was open-sourced after its parent company went bankrupt, and only after money was raised from the open-source crowd (before crowdfunding was a thing).
Thanks for mentioning draw.io. After a quick look around I can see that it will be very useful. I especially like the interface. If it wasn't for my browser interface above I would swear this is a very well made desktop app. Standard OS inputs used well are hard to beat. This really makes me think twice about using some of the fancy UI libraries out there.
Scikit-learn. The guys have done, and are continuing to do, an amazing job and the output is completely free. There is some funding involved, but the ultimate value/cost ratio is ridiculously high.
I remember downloading VLC for the first time and being overjoyed with the ease, reliability and compatibility. Nothing has changed in the years since then, something most software can't say.
It was said in jest, but emacs really is amazingly good for what it costs. Even more so if I consider each of the individual contributions that I take advantage of from so many other contributors. Helm, org-mode, use-package, paredit-everywhere, ace-isearch, magit, undo-tree, ...
The list really is quite impressive. And then there are the things I don't use, but still impress the hell out of me. Skewer mode being the frontrunner there.
Then there is Firefox. Easy to complain about memory usage and whatnot, but it really is an impressive piece of engineering for what I paid for it.
not sure if this counts, but as long as you have a .edu account, all of JetBrains stuff is technically free. i've been using all their IDEs since school, and continue to renew my licenses with my .edu email no issues.
KDE Plasma for me, it's amazing how good it is and how stable it has become. I've been using KDE for years and I've recommended it to almost anyone I could - and they always stuck with it, because it was simply too much well done. Compared to gnome 3 and other new desktop environments, KDE has always been so easy to use, predictable and customisable, a very joy to use.
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It's incredibly faster.
It does a spectacular job at emulating how real painting feels.
The color picker is a lot better in Krita, in my opinion.
Krita can use (some) Photoshop brushes out of the box, just add them in.
It has an (arguably) better interface, and four color schemes out of the box.
The Bad in Comparison:
It doesn't have the non-painting effects of Photoshop, which can be a huge downside if you tend to use those on your projects.
especially with competition from atom + with electron improvements leading to atom not having totally garbage performance
"How Open Source is Really Maintained" comes to mind: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1280/1*Q_8HbGbbfEmAjwPqB...
Pretty much my entire development stack.
The programming community in general is bloody amazing. I feel very grateful to be a part of it.
The list really is quite impressive. And then there are the things I don't use, but still impress the hell out of me. Skewer mode being the frontrunner there.
Then there is Firefox. Easy to complain about memory usage and whatnot, but it really is an impressive piece of engineering for what I paid for it.
Dropbox (basic) - Support across platforms with cli.
Some people are extremely happy with KDE Neron though.
The core stays on the latest Ubuntu LTS but the KDE is updates real quick to the latest version.
and such.