Krita

“I like to use a wacom+krita because I like to doodle while thinking.”

“there are other FOSS alternatives which are much more stable, mature, and deserve people's attention”

“So much easier to use than Gimp, excellent for consistent and modern UI conventions, but currently missing important features.”

“Krita and Inkscape are both serious and competent apps with their own principles and features”

“a few open source applications that are already perfect (and free”

“If you think GIMP and Krita (especially Krita) can replace Photoshop in workplace I'm 100% sure you don't know what professionals pay Photoshop for”

“These days, I just use Krita. It's on the heavier side, but functionally, it does what I need.”

“Krita is closer to Photoshop, but having extra features is not a problem.”

“Krita's what I'd suggest for anyone wanting an open source alternative to Paint.net”

“It's always worked flawlessly on my linux machine (Mint”

“pretty much the only capable digital painting app in open source realm”

“Krita is excellent for painting (specially its brush engine”

“has been the FOSS flagship 2D bitmap editor for many years”

“Krita seem to be doing really well keeping their UX up to date”

“Even basic stuff like rectangle select and selection manipulation is painful.”

“Nope, Krita and GIMP are not good enough”

“Took me 10 minutes to do this with an equal "budget" and the freeware graphics program Krita.”

“so marvelously monumental, they inspire me to improve in my craft”

“its UI is of course a lot better than GIMP, but unfortunately it's mostly skewed towards digital illustration”

“Nowadays I use Krita, ffmpeg, Blender, Zim Desktop Wiki, and Inkscape”

“both Gimp and Krita (very different tools) were rock-solid to me”

“I don't think I've ever managed to finish something in it before it crashes.”

“I had great experience with Krita, even with my display tablet it all "just worked”

“Krita has had this feature for years. Non-destructive filters (adjustment layers), too.”

“Most of the transfors you describe are still unfortunately destructive”

“Krita has a tremendous amount of potential to serve a free and open source application for several niche use cases”

“Krita is otherwise great to use, but used to be horrible when working with text”

“If your goal is a 1-to-1 clone why not use Krita or photoshop?”

“Are these not creative software? Perhaps not industry standard”

“I say this as someone who switched to Krita and canceled CC subscription.”

“if I need to edit something on a work computer, I'll just use that.”

“It has the subjectively "better" name, but also the improved UX.”

“can use Krita to very much just use AI to help finish a project”

“Krita seems to be on a good trajectory now that they've pivoted to a broader scope”

“Krita and Inkscape have successfully replaced Photoshop and Illustrator for me.”

“Krita is among the main reasons why I am so impressed with the KDE project”

“Gimp and Krita are very useful and even usable for a lot of people”

“A case in point for example is Krita, which is published as a paid app on the Microsoft Store.”

“Blender and Krita seem to give UX a higher priority, so they're more likely to catch on.”

“Kids commonly enjoy drawing, so it's likely a good idea to install Krita”