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[–] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 113 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So glad I'm finally able to What is Krita?.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 63 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't hurt me
Brush tools.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Our textbooks (in Ukraine) used to include stuff on both windows and linux (specifically, linux mint with cinnamon), and included a chapter on libreoffice/openoffice

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago
[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Gimp is better suited for this role

Krita is a art focused program

You also cannot add information to ~~blurted~~ blurred pictures, you can only approximate

[–] Rogers@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Take 2 people that have not used gimp or krita. Ask them to daw a circle, and see which software they are able to do it in.

Gimp is a ux nightmare (or at least it used to be i haven't used ot in years) I will try gimp 3 when it comes out in 2037

[–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

Gimp hasn't changed a ton in the last three years.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

GIMP 3.0 will be released this year, as far as I remember. (I already using the final test version for 3.0).

[–] lea@feddit.de 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone coming from Photoshop it's really hard to get into Gimp with it missing the layer effects you'd expect, which you all have in Krita.

[–] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Krita is aimed for Digital Painting, not Photo Manipulation, Photi Manipulation it's GIMP's work.

[–] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

I use Krita as an image editor and I prefer it.

[–] Indie59@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

I’m just here for the blurted pictures

[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gimp is an UI nightmare, I don't recommend it to anyone. Krita can't be worse.

[–] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly i don't see the problem, i've been using GIMp since around 2013 or 2015, i never had issues with the UI

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Very strange presentation of Krita, but I'll take it. The overview of what you'll be able to do doesn't actually list anything you can do, and the comic recommends using it to deblur photographs, which is definitely not something I would recommend Krita for.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Or indeed something that is really possible with anything. If it's blurry it's broken. Learn your camera settings and take another.

[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's some surprisingly sci-fi stuff that's possible with image deconvolution. Not exactly practical, but it is possible to recover some information from a blurry photo.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I'll wager computer generated blur is easier to undo than real physics generated blur.

There was that Canadian a few years ago who used a swirly blur on a picture of him raping kids, and the German police reversed it and had him locked up.

[–] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, you're not wrong - but it's a technique used every day for super-resolution microscopy.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 years ago

I can finally tools in Krita!

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m surprised that open source technology isn’t used at American universities. My local university only has proprietary software which I guess makes sense because of industry standards, but the reality is learning on open source will be more beneficial in the long run.

[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Most proprietary companies will give very steep discounts or even free licences to schools and universities. If you introduce an entire generation of students to your software, students will gravitate toward what they're familiar with when they enter the "real world".

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'm not. Universities aren't places of open or free learning. They're deeply invested in capitalism and benefit greatly from intellectual property laws. In fact, most universities function largely as state subsidized pipelines that take people without a viable, real world skill set and turn them into people who still don't have a viable real world skill set, but who do have a piece of paper telling corporations that they're able and willing to put up with complete bullshit, general mistreatment, and dull, grueling labor for years without incident. Which is good enough for your typical middle-class wage slave and whatever they might want to do.

[–] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

And to think that’s what my fucking taxes are paying for. Anticompetitive lock in baked into a churn and burn the proletariat pie

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Why show young bright minds free options when you can get more money from them for the rest of their lives with subscription software

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 years ago

It's unfortunate how many replys are missing the good part of this and rather respond with criticism and negativity. We can do better than that folks. This is a good thing!

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 years ago

That is some q u a l i t y textbook right there.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I like seeing the Krita suggestion, but to just call it “open-source” with no clarification on that means would lead me to believe kids would skip over the hyphenated adjective without realizing it is often the key to finding other good, open-source software (e.g. a “open-source alternative to Reddit” query should lead one to Lemmy). I’m hoping it has a section or callout or even a vocab word on another page but I’m skeptical.

(This is putting aside my quarrels with OSI, FSF, SPDX for the larger picture)

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

Considering Linux have 15% marketshare in India, I'm pretty sure the curriculum already cover what open source is.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure about this particular textbook, but ours did explain what open-source is. So I'm guessing it might have been covered in a previous chapter.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

That’s really cool to hear 😀

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

That's some good application choices right there

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I read that in the most posh British accent possible.

Edit: IDK why the downvotes, really

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I will never get over people using software as a countable noun. You mean a software program or a software application, not ~~a software~~

"They downvoted him because he spoke the truth."

One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish.

One software, two softwares. One literature, two literatures. One Lego, two Legos. One butter, two butters. One snow, two snows.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Are there any school textbooks out there that have poeple in them that don't look creepy?

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 2 years ago

More colorism? Wildly white people in an Indian textbook.