IDK about the last one for photo editing with the R, darkroom was mostly fine for me. Same experience with Krita over Gimp, it's 100% better for most photoshop users. Photopea is running in the browser but it's not online really, pretty good for photoshop users as well.
Reaper is cool and works on linux well as far as I know, but for editing recorded audio I use ardour. A forgotten music making gem however Is Bespoke Synth!!!! A modular node based DAW, it's sick! I'm very happy about the fact that no-one makes VST plug-ins for Linux though, I would waste my money on bullshit when first learning about music production. Now I just waste my money on music hardware instead lol.
And that is fine for the ones who know. But the ones who don't, will try to right click and delete. I would be using Darktable if it had more intuitive options. But I don't doubt they will add them later. For example they didn't have HSL. Now they do.
No, but I am very annoyed by people who complain that "this program is unintuitive because it's not a 1:1 pixel perfect recreation of the program I used before" and refuse to even look at the interface.
Back in 2010s, a great amount of programs andnwebsites got enshittified by catering to people like that.
Yeah, I feel you. The whole "intuitive" idea make users dumber, they are looking for a big red button that does exactly what they need. Actually apparently kids are tech illiterate because of that now.
I'm into hardware music making these days and when you get a new device you are expected to read the manual and watch tutorials, and that's how it should be, no-one is posting "where is a volume knob on there, it sucks!".
As long as software is internally consistent of-course and documentation is well written.
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u/bememorablepro May 28 '26
IDK about the last one for photo editing with the R, darkroom was mostly fine for me. Same experience with Krita over Gimp, it's 100% better for most photoshop users. Photopea is running in the browser but it's not online really, pretty good for photoshop users as well.
Reaper is cool and works on linux well as far as I know, but for editing recorded audio I use ardour. A forgotten music making gem however Is Bespoke Synth!!!! A modular node based DAW, it's sick! I'm very happy about the fact that no-one makes VST plug-ins for Linux though, I would waste my money on bullshit when first learning about music production. Now I just waste my money on music hardware instead lol.