Figma is NOT free software. It is proprietary, and hosted.
Resolve is also proprietary.
It said free. Not open source
Difference beeing, you can download resolve onto your pc and use it forever without updating, even if they decide to cancel the free version or get bankrupt. Figma runs entirely web based and if Adobe buys it it can be killed off at any point.
Penpot is a better option here.
Pretty sure neither Figma or Resolve are free software.
Davinci Resolve has a free version that is missing some features. They are important features, mind. But it definitely allows you to edit videos and get a good feel for the software to see if you want to purchase it or you can just keep using the free version even.
So it’s free*.
And the paid version is buy once and get a perpetual license. Very non-scummy for a full professional video editing tool.
On linux I just use Blender for video editing, it does about 95% of what I need
A better, free-er alternative to figma would be something like Penpot which works pretty well and is easy to self-host.
Kdenlive is quite good and foss
Blender is an alternative to 3DS Max in the same way an actual car is an alternative to flintstoning a burnt out wreck. Even in college a lot of our very basic rendering exercises with Max got the whole grade just on demonstrating correct setup because the software is so prone to crashing or taking 20h to do what most alternatives (paid or free) can do in 20 minutes.
You’re saying Blender is better? I’ve only used Blender, but I would believe it. It’s like opposite of how I feel about GIMP.
Yeh, admittedly I have a lot more experience with blender than 3DS Max, but from performance differences alone I’m pretty sure if Max released today without its massive pre-existing industry adoption it would be laughed out of the room.
You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
You couldn’t pay me to use Adobe. The predatory pricing, required internet, Linux incompatability, file scanning, Adobe Bridge, bad privacy policy, bloated install, useless launcher, DRM, and use of AI offends me.
Techphobic, nonprofessional opinion.
Lol the funniest part is I have a dual Bachelor’s in CS and Graphic Design, and can spell technophobic correctly
can you spell inferiority complex?
You can theme it to change icons and sizes and such, which helps a little. But I agree, the interface is a nightmare. Ever since v3 came out, my layers window has disappeared and I can’t find it. That’s a kind of important panel to hide away :(
Try either crtl +L or from the top menu Windows > dockable dialogs > Layers
You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.
Try Photogimp
Please… Let Gimp die already… Krita is actually made by humans for humans
Gimp 3 is actually a massive improvement and they are releasing updates on a routine basis now. Try Photogimp if you like a more standard interface and layout
I saw it. It was… Ok
Well… For quick text insertion, meme creation, or some very basic photo editing I still boot up Gimp.
But yeah… The newest version of Gimp feels like they updated from a very out dated version to a mostly out dated version.
Yeah…GIMP is kinda shit. It’s probably the one app I’d pay Adobe for to not use GIMP.
lol, I feel you,
you should try Affinity Studio. It’s Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign in one
People who promote gimp likely never actually tried to use that piece of shit. Try Krita instead, holy fuck is it so much better as a useable piece of art software.
Krita is not a replacement for Photoshop though. There is a difference between a software to draw and a software for image manipulation.
by the same logic, neither is gimp.
I learned Photoshop in high school, then tried to use Gimp in college. What a fucking disaster of a program.
Gimp instead of Krita???
I need a Lightroom alternative, on linux.
Edit: Looks like rawtherapee is a good one. Funky name though…Darktable is what you are looking for.
Its always the Linux app names… Surprised Klitoris doesn’t exist yet.
Never really used Lightroom, only looked at the interface once or twice. But I think Digikam could be an alternative to replace it.
I’m also in search for a light room replacement but heard dark table has better raw processing.
Also another q: can rawtherapee can catalogue videos?
As someone who loves linux and FOSS some of these are far from being replacements and some of these are even upgrades. It does depend on one’s usage though. Like I couldn’t tell a Photoshop power user that gimp is a full replacement. I could say though that blender is an upgrade from cinema 4D.
Kdenlive is fucking awesome and should have been on this list.
More people know Premier, but Natron is designed as a clone to the foundry’s Nuke.
A better photoshop alternative is photopea. Gimp is it’s own mess.
Can you download and install Photopea or does it still require a Web browser and an online connection to run?
No official version that ive seen, but it seems some people have made offline versions.
Here’s a flatpak: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.vikdevelop.photopea_app
Uses an electron wrapper according to the page. I have not used this personally so can’t say if it works well or not.
It’s been a while since I paid attention to it, but last I heard Natron wasn’t maintained anymore since it was having trouble getting developers.
That sucks. They had a really solid foundation going. The few times I used it it did crash when I put it under stress, but the UI was respectable and the tools I used were functional.
Affinity Studio should be added, not FOSS but free. I t has a polished UI
I don’t speak polish though
Any one else looked into Graphite? I first found it as a vector editor, but it seems to have widened its scope a fair bit
Anyone have the one where it’s all vim lol?
How good is DaVinci Resolve on Linux? I have been wanting to switch for a long time now, but I read online that DaVinci doesn’t work that well on Linux, so has it gotten better?
It works best with NVIDIA drivers and with the least workarounds in RHEL type distros (officially it supports Rocky Linux).
Decoding and encoding is really limited, especially in the free version. There’s details about codec support in their website.If you pay for it, and you’re already used to distros like Fedora, Rocky, RHEL it pretty much works out of the box. Only Fedora requites some tinkering. There’s also tools and workarounds for distros like Arch AFAIK.
On the paid version there should be no problem with codec.
Yes, but there are limitations depending on hardware. Intel and AND don’t get the best encoding and decoding performance.
Worked fine for me when u used it the other day to make a quick video. Cachyos amd card
Depends on what you use it for i guess
Have to try it out some time
