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A cool guide software alternative (i.redd.it)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It's always the same. Many people tell you how a software is not a replacement for other software. Of course it isn't, because otherwise it would be exactly the same piece of software.

Tell me a replacement for LaTeX, Postfix, zsh, vim or OpenSSH. There isn't, because these are the best from my point of view.

Instead of recommending one alternative, you sometimes need to combine them. The most powerful tools are btw combinable in a tool chain and the best are controllable from common scripting or programming languages.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I got a 3d printer (bambu p1s per someone's recommendation here) but the bambu software allows very little in the realm of adjusting a print (size for example is mostly what I can do).

I've been heavily overwhelmed looking into a 3d software editing platform to adjust prints. I don't have the capacity to learn multiple softwares, but I heard blender does pretty poorly in creating prints with hard dimensions.

While I do like to explore the realm of figurines and characters to print, I tend to use my printer for more engineered prints, things I measure and need a replacement for, or to fill in the need of something I'm I'm constructing.

This is where Adobe got most of the positive reviews for a 3d software that's best of both worlds. Creative and engineered. While blender is heavily leaning towards creative.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

FreeCAD is an option, but it's a bit of a mess. Does the job though!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

InDesign had those text boxes that you could link to the next text box with the little red plus, and the words would flow back and forth. It's the only thing in all of the Adobe Creative Suite that I miss! FUCK ADOBE, GIMP FOR LIFE!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe Scribus (FOSS) could scratch that itch?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Gimp is good. I don't know what the gimp haters are always so mad about. The buttons are in different places than in photoshop, big whoop. I have been able to do everything I've ever attempted in gimp and I do modding and game development. I just don't get it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I will say this till the day I die: Krita is better than GIMP in basically every way and can even integrate with graphicmagick for its filters via a plugin (which comes built-in for the flatpak version). The UX is so close to photoshop to the point where it makes no sense to use GIMP and endure the suffering of its UI.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Gimp is fucking trash

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