Free as in beer, not as in speech, and DaVinci Resolve at least has a $295 upgrade for additional features, although last time I looked that upgrade is included with certain hardware purchases from Blackmagic.

I’ve been pretty happy with kdenlive myself.

Not much what's updog with you?

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.

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

"Not much, what's figma with you?"

Try PenPot instead.

Resolve is also proprietary.

Penpot is a better option here.

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.

Yeah its insane, i actually feel like im using fully fledged 3d mechanical modelling software now.

I like Freecad. I use it because it's FOSS. But it's not as easy to use, sadly.

Krita had been great for most of my work.

Photopea. It's not open-source but it's "freemium". It's like a web Photoshop.

Can confirm. Never used photoshop, Gimp seems fine to me.

I'd suggest Krita before Gimp, and even Affinity (although I'm sure there's a gotcha coming with that one)

GIMP is also a massive pain in the ass. Paint.net is the one piece of software I still miss after moving to Linux.

Da Vinci Resolve is great though. Crazy that it's free and Linux compatible.

Photopea is pretty good for casual use

Same with Inkscape IMO. Anyone have a different alternative?

Gimpshop i think it's called at least tries to make the GIMP workflow and UX (including keyboard short cuts) not completely, well, gimped.

The image doesn't say it's a replacement, it says it's an alternative. What piece of sofware would you suggest instead?

Yeah GIMP is shit. Anyone who says otherwise has no idea what they’re talking about. Inkscape is better than gimp but still suffers from UI issues.

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.

Krita, definitely, though it's still not as complete in capability it's a much better analogue

Whenever I open GIMP I always feel like an 18th century taxonomist's first time seeing a platypus and assuming it's an elaborate hoax cooked up by someone with far too much time on their hands. Surely this isn't software made by humans to do useful things!? This must be a joke!

Wow that was a RISKY click based on that URL

Not a good product name 😬

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 :(

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.

You couldn’t pay me to use Gimp. The interface offends me.

Try Photogimp

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.

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