GIMP is as robust as Photoshop, although from scratch or transition may be harder to use? paint net is a middle ground.

Eh krita better but yes

Does gimp support CMYK now? I’m a professional designer and that’s one of the reasons I didn’t use gimp. If you’re designing print media for a million dollar company, or if you want to do it right, you need to grade the colors correctly. By using rgb pics for printing you have no control over what the printer spits out. Also: if you’re using the visuals for more media than online banners, like video, it’s just so much easier to import PSDs to After effects. When you’re paid by the work and not the hour, you can’t afford to export every layer from gimp to import everything to a different program and redo all the stuff you already did. Time is money

For real! It's partially what keeps me coming back to Windows. I yearn for the day when Paint.net can be ran on Linux.

Last time I tried using Paint.NET (early last year, I think) it had significant feature gaps compared to the likes of Photoshop, Krita, or Gimp. It's a good start. And I know it's an open source project that's dependent on contributions and funds. But if you need to edit images beyond some relatively basic features, it's not there yet.

Not using this doesn't help with that though? It is already released, telling them not to make it would help but it's too late now?

The code is available on Github...?

Well. Vibecoded software is kind of a different duck, because it’s so unstable and ends up being a completely unmaintainable replacement/alternative. I’d say it’s more “shit” than even diffusion-made media.

It’s similar in that it’s a short-term fix. You use diffusion when you want something right now, and cheap, everything else be damned, and vibecoding is the same. This “impulse coding” also makes the projects quite ephemeral.

…But LLM coding is also a spectrum. There is a healthy amount of LLM automation that absolutely helps small projects or solo devs, those that are already doing a great job without them. Clearly vibe coded projects like this aren’t healthy, but there are other instances where it’s actually a useful tool.

Actually, nobody's gonna use it at all. If it's AI-generated, then it's absolutely a duplicate of Photoshop. After a while, all updates will be stopped.

I don't think so. I just see another buggy, non-updating piece of garbage. GIMP is the answer for Photoshop on Linux. And always will be.