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  • Oct 12, 2026, 10:16 PM

    @retrimental My exact feeling as well.
    I've been struggling a bit to use creative apps on Linux. I'm mostly switching between Krita and Affinity.
    The community has managed to bring affinity to a very usable state on Linux, but it is not FOSS and I can see it coming, with their freemium approach, that they will eventually charge a subscription and will enshittify.

    It is pretty evident that these AI slop clones will most likely fizzle out. Generating a code base that despite being open source is hard to read, hard to review will, IMHO, prevent them from achieve feature parity.
    But weĺl see, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Canva will freak out and will start working on a Linux version for their stuff as well.

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  • Oct 12, 2026, 10:31 PM

    @psoul
    My exact thoughts. I like Affinity, sure, but I'm at the point where I simply do not trust it if it's not open source.

    Of course FOSS isn't immune to enshittification but proprietary software is very prone to it.

    Even if there's some legal witchcraft that Adobe does, FOSS can at least be forked. There's *some* level of longevity for FOSS that reassures me enough to trust it. And damn, at least someone can audit the code so we know the devs aren't collecting and selling data to bigcorp

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