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• viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be happy to use Linux full time, once there’s a port of the actual Photoshop and a powerful Excel clone available.

  Gimp and LibreCalc work for casual stuff, but sorely lack when it comes to more advanced features.

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  • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People downvoting you but Linux seriously lacks contenders to those apps (especially if you’re a power user). I’ve used Gimp alongside Photoshop for the past decade and while Gimp excels in a few areas (color to alpha is crazy useful) it’s so poorly designed, it blows my mind. Alpha channel still disabled by default on a layer!?

    I use a KVM to switch between Linux, macOS, and Windows every day and it pains me I still can’t switch to Linux full time unless I give up on a tools like Photoshop (Excel however is fast being replaced by Pandas / Polars).

    I’m holding out hope that a byproduct of Valve and Codeweaver’s efforts with Proton might mean Photoshop will one day run perfectly on Linux. I hate Adobe but Photoshop doesn’t have a serious contender (and given how asinine the .psd format is, we’ll never see a decent tool support its file format fully either).

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah I was a bit surprised by the downvotes considering this is the window community, but then again the Linux fanboys on Lemmy are a resilient bunch.

      Funny thing is that I’m using Linux (Xubuntu) as my daily driver, but switch to Windows for those two applications pretty much exclusively.

      I’ve yet to use Pandas / Polars, are they working well with macros/vbs and pivot tables, especially importing existing ones from excel? That was by biggest pain point with Calc.

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      • fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Pandas and Polars are libraries for the Python and Rust programming languages (respectively).

        The way I moved on from Excel was to write code instead since my end goal was always data visualization and there are so many good visualization libraries that offer far more than Excel could out of the box.

        It’s not for the faint of heart and you’ll have to reimplement the logic of all your macros but once you’re liberated, it’s exceptionally freeing - especially being able to handle vastly bigger datasets than Excel could handle.

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I feel like there’s just some techies who consider these applications essential to their whole life and being, while most others have not much use for them.

      In this case, I agree that the downvotes are undeserved, because they only talked about their own needs.
      But yeah, my gut reaction was to get angry, too, due to association with some jackasses who will vehemently argue that Linux as a whole is not useful (not even for decidedly non-power-users), because clearly everyone unquestionably needs Photoshop and Excel.

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    • Patrizsche@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gimp 3.0 coming out in May, we’ll see if they’ve improved

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I doubt GIMP ever will; the surprisingly small cadre of developers have basically come out and said “shitty UX is our religion.”

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    • voracread@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What are these Pandas/Polars?

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  • Nia_The_Cat@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not yet, nope. Thanks for the tip, I’ll check it out!

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