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I like computers and stuff

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@gloopsies@fosstodon.org avatar gloopsies , to random

Hello artists of fediverse!

It's probably not a wild thing to say that we all hate Adobe and similar giant companies that make art software that:

  1. Doesn't work on linux,
  2. Could probably disappear tomorrow without any warning, taking all our projects with it and
  3. Requires expensive subscriptions

I want to try and combat that by creating an alternative open source suite of tools!

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Q: But what about existing open source tools (inkscape, gimp, krita...)?

While I'm very greatful for their work and what they've brought to the community, I personally couldn't get used to them. They feel slow, outdated and are not made to work together elegantly. I also have friends that are artists that feel the same way.

While I do believe that these tools work great for some people, they do not work great for everyone and a little bit of choice never hurt the open source community.

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Q: why do you think you can make something better then existing tools?

I do not think I have to make something that is 100% better for everyone, just something that is better for some people. I want to work with artists from the start of the project to make something that caters to them and that's why I'm making these posts

My priorities are on stability, speed and ease of use, while leaving a clean path to adding any requested features later.

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Q: What will make my tools better?

  1. I want to make the whole system very modular from the very start. (More about it soon)

  2. I want to use exclusively hardware rendering (with an opengl software fallback)

  3. I want to make a system from the ground up that can be used for both vector and raster editing, that will also have animation and video editing support etc

  4. I want to use modern technologies and start from the clean slate without years of legacy code

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Q: Do you have any experience in creating something similar?

I have created a very barebones vector graphics editor in the past. While I probably will not use almost any of it's cod,e it proved to me that this is possible and it also showed me what not to do and how to do everything better.

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And now the most important thing:

If you're an Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma or similar program user, what are the most important features that even the most basic app needs for you to consider trying it?

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@kenSwinson

That is the plan I have! But I first want to make a decent vector manipulation program before adding other features like raster editing.

But all the code will be written with that feature in mind!

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar thelinuxEXP , to random

Since decided to limit developers and users in terms of what extensions they can run, and how good they are, I think it's time to place that browser where it belongs (in the bin), and replace it with anything else, since everything else is better.

Here is a look at some popular browsers, and some new ones I hadn't tried and that suitably impressed me:

https://youtu.be/JaTRtAwL5e8

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@thelinuxEXP

Why does your voice sound so off, unexpected intonation and a lot of umms and uhs that are not at all what I'm used to watching your videos. It feels weirdly AI generated but also too real to be AI, I don't know what to think about this

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

Poll: How many stickers do you have on your laptop?

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@nixCraft

I might fall in the "Walking billboard" category but apart from the JetBrains products (which I will probably remove since they don't really fit in) it's not really a commercial for anything

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial “Recall” feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. Recall, part of the Copilot+ suite announced in May, automatically captures screenshots of user activity on the operating system including sensitive information such as passwords or financial data https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/25091/microsoft-recall-feature-on-windows-11-not-removable-after-all/ Do yourself a favor and get rid of Windows from your life—enough of these greedy companies.

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@nixCraft

This is the best Windows feature yet. My parents agreed to try out Linux for the first time because of it. Thank you Microsoft <3

@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Is 32 GiB RAM enough these days for development machines powered by or or ?

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@nixCraft

My PC has 16gb and I am using swap very rarely when I have a lot of stuff open, my laptop has 32gb and I've never even come close to filling it up. I am using a very basic and average setup with Fedora Linux, Firefox, podman and a couple of jetbrains products. My last laptop has 8gb of RAM and that was a bit more problematic. It used swap a lot and I had to make a swap partition separate to the default zram one, but it was very usable as well

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar thelinuxEXP , to random

Early video today, on a less positive topic than usual: a bunch of and projects regularly are criticized online, and I wanted to explore the reasons behind a few of them.

I tried to approach this as factually as possible, with as little bias as possible. It's not inflammatory, it's not an attack on anyone, it's just exposing the reasons why you might see certain projects and entities getting some heat online:

https://youtu.be/t8SiRr7qWUc

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@thelinuxEXP
I applaud the courage to do a topic like this but it was very lukewarm at best, missing a lot of information about eg snaps being forced on users that try to install packages with apt, AppImages only working on a small subset of Linux distributions that use specific supported glibc versions, probono hating on Wayland and not allowing a simple patch to allow AppImages to use wayland if they so desire and a lot more. The video makes it seem like there are fewer problems than there are

@pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar pupxel , to random

being a programmer is hard when you wanna share your work like your arty friends but your program output looks like this and no one will ever understand or appreciate the complexity involved

A single triangle with the colours blending inwards towards the middle from the corners. The triangle is orientated such that the red and blue corners are at the bottom left and right of the image respectively and the green corner is at the top and centred horizontally.
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@mcc @pupxel

How hard is making a program in Vulkan actually? I have experience in OpenGL and wanted to give Vulkan a spin but I don't want to spend too much time on it

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@mcc

I don't plan on doing anything GPU intensive in the browser so I'll stick with gtk and opengl for now, but thanks!