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Krita may have a different aim on paper, but that just looks like a way to avoid conflict with the GIMP devs until it's clear to absolutely everyone that they've replaced it.

One of the real shockers with the GIMP is how badly it plays with Ubuntu's Unity, where the menubar will get emptied whenever you change something in a non-image editor window.

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Krita is a great program, and maybe a future GIMP replacement, but for now, it is strongly focused on Digital Painting, and it does a great job in that field.

Curses! I've been seeking a free program with PaintDotNet levels of functionality which works on Mac for ages (We have MacBook Airs at work, while I use PaintDotNet for game dev at home). GIMP is really difficult to draw anything with, even the simplest things, with good cause - it's not a drawing tool.

I thought Krita might fit the bill, but apparently it only has support for Windows and Linux. Much sadness.

EDIT: never mind, just seen the Pixelmator rec lower down - problem solved I guess!

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