isn't it !piracy? i forget what the notation for communities is on here
Fedora. It ships vanilla GNOME which is just a very pleasant experience. Vanilla GNOME is just something else man.
china isn't much better - they're much more notorious for their backdoors.
edit: before (admittedly you all already have) started throwing pitchforks at me for being a glowie, i live in eastern europe, and am an anarchist. i am no way saying that the U.S. has not done it's fair share of global surveillance - honestly i'm more concerned about the U.S. because they seem to have their claws in about every single service and company. i just don't think we should be absolving china of all of their wrongdoings just because they're an enemy to the U.S.
you could use GIMP, or even PhotoGIMP if you're too used to photoshop's behaviour and keybindings