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I needed 3D software to create a bunch of models for a RealityKit demo and the only usable version of Maya was $200 per month (Maya LT doesn't support plugins).

I gave Blender another shot (Blender 2.8 to be specific). The new UI is just fantastic! And it's actually usable with a touchbar-only setup.

I wish GIMP progressed so much—*nix environment + Adobe CC are the two main reasons I'm sticking to MacOS.

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I've given up on GIMP in a sense, Krita is the closest to what I actually want it to be but it's still missing some key stuff for me when it comes to vector selections and font work (but font work on GIMP was also less than great). It's much closer to what I've wanted GIMP to evolve into, so I've been crossing my fingers there.

Photopea is much better than gimp in my opinion. It works really-really well for a web app.

https://www.photopea.com/

Oh wow that also works on my phone! This is amazing.

Krita's also active and improving rapidly, unlike GIMP. I have high hopes for it.

I hope Blender will include more GIMP features in the future

Such as? I get annoyed as well coming back and forth for simple tasks in image manipulation.

I've made a switch almost year ago from Linux (and OSX earlier) to Windows - thanks to WSL it's like being still on *nix system but with running painlessly .exe applications ;)

Creative cloud runs wonderfully on a cheap gaming PC.

I think they're saying that they want to use Linux exclusively. So running CC on Windows is just as bad in their mind as running it on Mac.

(Actually, now I think about it, it's worse than running CC on Mac. Because on Mac at least they get a *nix based OS.)

On Windows you get WSL.

You also get all the baggage that comes with windows.

Very few people that are hanging onto OsX for Photoshop are wanting to switch to Windows.

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