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I’ve asked the same question in the past, and see it keep coming up. The lack of something centralised or coordinated for donations is a massive missed opportunity for FOSS.

This is exactly the sort of thing I think the FSF should take on. They are a nonprofit which exists to promote free software, and I think this should include the freedom to donate and receive funds. They are smart people and I’m sure they could figure out how to do it in an efficient way.

Have a look at Debian. If you set up Flatpak with Flathub (very easy) you can easily install all of the applications you’re likely to want with the GNOME Software GUI. Debian is a community distribution.

For jobs where you just want to make cuts check out ‘Lossless Cut’. It’s extremely simple and extremely fast.

GIMP is excellent software and I love using it. There are some great plugins coming out for the new GIMP 3 series too.

I had a similar thing. I started using Linux for privacy reasons and over the course of replacing all of the proprietary software I was using I fell in love with FOSS. Especially GIMP and other photography-related software.

I haven’t used Krita much but found that the brushes were really nice to use.

GIMP is definitely a bit disorentating and complex if you’ve never used it before. After spending a couple of hours of proper study to get to grips with it though, the power and flexibility of it is awesome.

As with the recent Adobe/Photoshop news, I understand why this has been done and the sort of user that it’s for, but FOSS graphics and photography software on Linux is so good now that I don’t think this will have the impact it might have had a few years ago.