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I just use photopea in the browser these days. It's pretty much exactly Photoshop, at least for my non-advanced purposes.

Affinity tools are great.

Totally agreed. Specifically, I can never get the “ants” that should show up when you select something. It’s an ongoing bug that was just never fixed. So I just have to remember that a thing is selected. Quite irritating.

I've had the ants working in my install since 2.10.28

Just updated and it seems to be fixed. I wish I could amend my complaint.

The "ants" got fixed sometime in the past few months, I believe, and thank goodness: it really did make GIMP almost impossible to use for anything complicated enough to need GIMP. (But they've been working on my M1 Mac for a while now.)

This is my experience entirely.

I've been using GIMP for most of my life, but a lot of little things are off on Macs. My GIMP experience translates nicely to Pixelmator