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If this works with Adobe Creative Cloud, then moving to a Linux distro has suddenly become much more attractive.

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The homepage notes that it can't run complex graphical software yet.

With that in mind, some recent versions of Adobe software like Photoshop have worked fine in Wine for a while now.

Can't you just use the Window version? Adobe CC works fine with Wine.

Does it have pen pressure support already? Last time I checked pen pressure only worked on CS2 and below on wine

If this works with Adobe Creative _Suite_, ie pre-subscription, then I’m sold.

this is a very very experimental piece of software, where they are happy to run some terminal apps.

So sorry, no

As far as raster graphics, Krita, GIMP, and Darktable can get you professional results without needing to resort to closed-source software.

I use DT almost exclusively for my photo editing since over a decade.

While it is absolutely true that you can do professional work with this you have a very steep learning curve, bad UX and feature overload.

The latter is really a core reason for the bad UX: developers love to add features. Every feature you add becomes another module or another slider.

Every slider or widget you add creates an extra dimension for the parameter vector an artist has to explore to get the result they want.

Less is more. This is contraintuitive for developers. As a developer I would say it is because of the warm, wholesome feeling that adding another feature gives you when you do. :)

Choosing what to leave out or how to combine stuff into fewer widgets is one of the hardest parts of software product development.

And this is the missing piece in so much OSS software.

Just for example, the Phase One (DT-like commercial app) HDR module (which just allows HDR compression of shadows & highlights) has two sliders that cover 95% of use cases.

DT has seven sliders & one dropdown in it's Shadows & Highlights module. Yes, they probably cover the other 5% but a what price?

That's why professional creative software still has an edge and that's why the prospect of being able to run macOS graphical software on Linux is very exciting to me.

But you can do so much in RAW alone. The retouch module alone takes it bounds above others. With the new basic adjustments, they've made many things more straightforward. You can show or hide any modules you don't want It's hard to guess what experience is 'best'. I prefer having extra knobs.

My impression is that Krita is for digital painting and not for photo editing, is that not the case?

This is correct. I would say there is still no PS alternative on Linux.

I use Natron a lot for retouching but few people will know about or consider this because it is aimed at film compositing.

But if one wanted to create something better than PS on Linux, looking at professional compositing apps (Nuke, Fusion, etc.) and their OSS clones like Natron would probably be a good starting point.

Digital painting is still raster graphics.

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