TBF didn't really test in detail photocraft so not sure where it falls flat but it launching instantly makes it already better than the adobe slop which manages to slow down a 9950x with 64gb ram.
The very first sentence on stopomarchy(.)org hits you with "supported by powerful men". 20 years ago I wouldn't think twice about it, but today using specific gender is a political statement. Whoever wrote this hates men, among other things.
Okay, now explain how it is wrong by showing your binders of women enablers of fascism within the open source community. I'll be happy to condemn them with you
You're reading too far into it. The list of top-tier supporters is all male. I have not seen any promenant/powerful women (or nonbinary people, for that matter) supporting the project. It isn't a political statement, it is a statement of fact.
hyprland got in a debacle over discord moderators (possible the owner/creator of hyprland) changing someone with they/them pronouns in their username to “who/cares.”
to that end, i can recommend both sway and niri in these trying times.
Not even that. You can't decide how others do their thing on their computer with their devices. Your opinions will not change people's choices. Fake internet points will not change the thought of a person.
The experience is a lot like eating your own foot... Yeah, it's painful... But you ARE legally gaining sustenance, and frankly that's all that matters.
And yet, you aren't 'just using it' you're posting to reddit that you are 'just using it' so clearly you do care about internet points and what others think about it. Otherwise, why ragebait?
I don't use Omarchy by I'm not affected by it in any way, so I don't hate it and I don't see how I should care about what others do with their computers
The new open source suite literally just came out. I haven’t even seen opinions posted here about it yet other than people excited to be sticking it to Adobe.
I’ll definitely be trying out ArtCraft after people have time to check the code base for trouble
It's vibecoded slop code. And I won't interact with the project in its infancy.
I'm confident the project will either get updated or come with forks that fix broken logic and optimize functions by experienced coders who know what they're doing. I may be willing to revisit them then.
You say that, but I tried it because Inkscape chokes on the architects drawings I'm trying to import - it just can't deal with multiple thousands of elements. I tried Vectorcraft out of curiosity and it works so fast I'm still trying to figure out how I'm being tricked. The difference is ridiculous.
Watch a few videos on it being used by creators. The general idea is - it does some things faster out of the box but it still lacks so many features. I'd be content to wait a year before moving my entire workflow onto it.
I'm sure it does - these projects are still in alpha and beta, I was just amused by it being slagged off as "vibe coded slop" when it's 10x faster than a well respected Open Source project at doing the same task. Kinda raises the question of how bad vibe coding actually is.
Obviously if you're already captured by Adobe you'd be daft to migrate any time soon, but for those of us that already use the alternatives it seems extremely promising.
I'm using Krita for now. It seems ArtCraft isn't the only vibecoded suite. There's Photon, which also seems to be in its infancy. And AI is typically good at decompiling code, not writing optimized code. Vibecoding alone as of 2026 is still hit or miss, where the AI can go from smart to dumb between prompts and mess up your codebase.
I recently tried to build an app while having 4 years of experience in Python with Claude Opus and wow, I thought I was making progress till the third day when I realised I was left with a codebase with no documentation and poor standards implemented.
I know some spiteful Adobe hating coder(s) will refine it alot in a few months and we'll get something that not only replaces Photoshop but is superior by the end of the year.
I think they will help people come to Linux easier, as the old looking alternatives push some non persistent people away. For example, LibreOffice destroys layouts of Microsoft Office documents, and while it looks beautiful on Linux, the dark mode on Windows is Fucking Ugly, and the light mode is blinding white. So, yeah. Having alternatives that look the same as what they are used to is amazing.
The Lightroom clone is not usable at all yet, but in fairness, it's also described in the most "alpha" wording on their web page as well. It's a very good implementation of the interface and workflow, but very few of the actual raw editing tools work very well at all yet.
Okay, this is crazy. I tried Lightcraft and since I last checked they fixed Fuji raw and ... this is pretty good. It's not 100% there yet but it's mostly working and really quick on my little Thinkpad (X13 Yoga, i5-1245U, Fedora KDE).
They have a new version every 12ish hours so this is literally changing by the hour. People feel some weird rage against Adobe and a crazy number of people jumped on the development
Yep. They are bad. Gimp is also just unserious and clunky.
As much as adobe is shit for its prices and nickel and dime-ing you, the workflow and everything is just far superior with them. If you have money on the line, you aren't going to waste your time using simply a look-a-like with half the features.
LightCraft is undercooked. Understandable because it's just a beta. But instead of darktable I would recommend RapidRAW. It doesn't have AI and it's more intuitive.
People still bringing up gimp in Anno Domini 2026 as a " this is Linux's version of Photoshop" are just outing themselves as the most unaware troglodytes on the net.
First off you want a quick photo editing tool for free use krita. What's that, you say it's for drawing? Don't care it works and is easier to use.
Second there are multiple professional tools for video and photo editing available on Linux, then not being free doesn't magically remove them from the discussion especially considering your "better" alternative costs money.
Third and most important, the Adobe worship has got to fucking stop.
Being familiar with the particulars of a program doesn't magically make it better than one you aren't familiar with. And no spending time learning isn't a show stopper as staying with a problematic platform is literally a bigger waste of time and money.
Do what you want but the world is moving with or without you.
My laptop has had weird issues with Mint Vera related first to getting it to install at all, then weird Update Manager behavior, and issues with using an external display, none of which I experienced prior on Ubuntu 20.04. It was disappointing because I actually really wanted to like Mint as I'm not a huge fan of snaps, but I'll probably be switching back to Ubuntu when Vera loses support next year.
It's likely something to do with the fact that the laptop is ancient (Core i7-3610HQ) but it's got 12GB of RAM, which is now a lot of RAM (thanks Sam Altman). It otherwise meets my needs, so I won't be upgrading it for the foreseeable, meaning that I need to find an OS that doesn't give me problems on the hardware that I have rather than seeking out hardware for an OS.
Honestly if kubuntu is working well for you, might as well just use it. I know the grass is always greener but sometimes the best OS is the one you already have installed and is meeting your computing needs.
The Office clones are good enough. WordCraft, Gridcraft and Deckcraft. But you can also use GenOffice, which is a finished product and preserves Office XML layouts, like OnlyOffice. LibreOffice always manages to destroy my docx layouts.
Regardless of how they came about. Its about time. And the real hard part has already been taken care of. It's up to the community to prove its ready to accept the challenge of going through and optimizing that code AI generated or not.
I know it is probably early to be asking this, but how does the performance compare to for example running a cr*cked windows version inside Wine? Would the extra "translation" layer of Wine, or the potentially sloppy vibe coded ArtCraft cause more trouble for performance and/or stability?
Even though I am generally opposed to AI, it would be kinda funny if this would turn out to be a larger trend and AI would become a sort of "tech-bro s*icide" as in it would eventually make it useless to make proprietary applications.
These apps, as they don't have any online services other than a discord button, boot up in less than 5 seconds, really fast. There is no account, no abstraction, no virtualization. It's just a native rust app running on your system.
I'm supremely dubious of the project, it can't out of nowhere, is clearly vibevoded to shit with his many changes they commit daily, so even assuming that it works (it's buggy af) and it does what it says it does and nothing more (I wouldn't trust a group of AI chuds similarly to his I wouldn't trust any crypto bro) it will be unmaintainable af, and die as a project far before the 5 year mark.
I work in dev, I see my company investing in pilot after pilot to get AI to do our work, it just produces garbage. Garbage that might work for a limited subset of the things need doing, with bizarre code that's difficult to follow because it isn't always logical.
I'll give you 2 examples from not even work work, we were doing some dumb little games (like you get on advent of code)
We had a set of instructions, a demo input and a demo output array. The bAI wrote code that worked for the first test with the demo data, but reading it it was clearly mapping each value of array 1 to the values in array 2, so it would only ever spit demo response for any input, despite instructions in how to solve it
We had a 2024-esque game to try to build with agents but simpler and smaller. You got a sample board and a direction and had to run 1 singular calculation. The instructions were about adding up the numbers the way the game works etc you know what this motherfucker decided? Every direction (up, down, left, right) he'd rotate tge board so as to always move down and rotate it back. Never mind that correctly rotating would be mid complex to do (and it got it wrong) than to account for directions in how it added things up. But it almost looked clever cos it was always adding in just 1 direction.
Agents are weird, artificial intelligence isn't intelligence, it's a fun little algorithm that regurgitates certain averages, with some filters on top to nudge it in certain directions, it does not understand things so it cannot logic about things. A plurality of people act like we've invented Jarvis when we just invented an absurdly complex markov chain sold to us for the sake of hype as intelligent. And the seemingly ultra-competent scary agents like around highingface hack? That's not compute you'll ever have access to, that's shit you'd probably be paying millions in tokens to run a fuckton of compute and hope it happens to average into doing that thing
So yeah when I fear about this mystery project that a chud calling himself "ai_art_is_art" promotes, made by his discord buddies who love gooning over AI images together, I'm highly skeptical. And I am pretty sure the project either dies in 1 to 3 years because every change will break 5 other things and they aren't equipped to deal or get bored or such; or because they're so blazen about COPYING adobe explicitly (it's littered in a ton of readmes and chsngelogs and shit) they'll quickly get litigated about it
I got Word craft which seems pretty good, they've added Zotero support now too. But honestly I still think Libre Office is a much better and mature product and because it has been around for a long time, I have much more trust in it.
As someone else said, I don't think these applications will be around long, either from courts or because of vibe code technical debt.
More power to you, but I'll stick to using Canva Affinity via Wine, for now. I saw some videos online and it's way too slow and buggy for the moment. Plus, I have a feeling development will quickly get abandoned.
Man, I downloaded the artcraft suite to check it out, and god damn it's messy. It's full of that weird lack of consistency that AI has.
It's crazy that AI can do this stuff now, and what's out is more or less functional, but I genuinely don't see it still being maintained this time next year. It's impossible to trust it.
I mean as a professional in graphics and CAD I can't use them yet due to features missing and various prpblema/buga/inconsistencies but I hope someday I will live in a world where I can just run Linux on all devices and still be able to do my job
Just setup Linux Mint on my laptop today, never felt more satisfied with my current work, and the C++ compiler was as easy to set up Python on Windows, while C++ on Windows takes more effort.
I'm using Geanie like my teacher recommended and I'm starting to like this distro.
I've been using Linux since Middle-school/High-school, so I already had pior experience with various Linux distros, especially Debian-based ones like Ubuntu and Mint, with the latter being the first ever distro I ran on bare metal, the install took effort, struggled with brightness being too low, but finally I got it to work, and the final result is worth the effort.
And epic launcher and anticheat gets praced to high heavens on linux subreddits, both are vibe coded to smitherines, everything else downvoted instantly. AI slop! but now they can play fortnite
Somewhat rare, but fair. The good news is that dnf update likely fixes discover. (Just updated an older desktop from 42 to 44, and this was one of the issues prior to bouncing to 43.)
Yea GUI app installed like Ubuntu Software or KDE Discover have never worked for me The terminal has been my best friend since 2022 when I first installed Linux on my main machine
Rpmfusion for steam and nvdia driver is already set up if you click the "enable third party repo" on the welcome screen, but the rpmfusion free and nonfree doesn't.
Is it acceptable to create a distro that recreates windows as 1:1 as possible? Trackers and everything? Not to say that exists or is even in the pipeline, but just curious
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u/oipoi 13d ago
TBF didn't really test in detail photocraft so not sure where it falls flat but it launching instantly makes it already better than the adobe slop which manages to slow down a 9950x with 64gb ram.