InkScape, Gimp, and Photopea are of the very few vector and/or raster programs that don't use any form of gen ai or the box. Plug-ins are a while other story. I'm just...so disappointed. If I can get an older download to work, that's the game plan now for my affinity products.

100% I started a lil garden this year and ignoring the whole space situation--it takes MONTHS to grow produce. Someone with a yard could solve for a fraction of their food needs...next year, at the earliest. And that's if you start now and not in an area that gets cold? Or have animals eating crops

It's also important to note that Linux systems, unlike all of Mac and Windows, are extremely flexible in the area of what you have in your OS. No, they can't run Windows programs, but if you don't want an app or feature...you just uninstall it. Period.

Linux is an opt in system.

As someone else said, one distro of Linux won't affect your experience elsewhere. The most Windows familiar distro is Mint and they aren't doin' any of that.

I'm sorry that all the art folks gotta learn about Linux this way, ontop of creating new art workflows. Be not afraid.

If the reason all of these failures exists is cause there's not enough money to fix it, then the game was already too expensive. I want everyone to be paid, but I also want my games to be affordable AND run. If I buy an $80 dollar game and it doesn't run like silk--I'm crashing the fuck out.

If anything, the tech of 2025 should allow us--if necessary, which it's not--make beautiful games that run better than their predecessors, for LESS--not more! I want to know why Breath of the Wild was a beautiful cell shaded game on the Switch 1, but every other similar game ran terribly? WHY?

I also want these games to stop being so needlessly fucking graphically intensive. We shouldn't need to hit the ceiling with this every year. There's zero reason that in 2025, a Silent Hill release runs so poorly on console and PC. Why? Why aren't these games optimized either?