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You heard #Adobe. Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite
* Krita is your new design/painting app
* Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
* glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
* digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:
* Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
* Scribus - layout like a pro
* GIMP - need we say more
* Blender - ditto

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (11 children)

FreeCAD has become soooo good!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (7 children)

@Bro666 @werefreeatlast It’s critically important to manage users expectations with #FOSS - FC is still uniquely set up and challenging to use.

It’s amazing what it can do, but development-wise it feels like #Blender long before it really hit its stride (as well as getting quality tutorials like Blender Guru) several years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I agree! Nevertheless I am still astounded at the progress FreeCAD has made in the last... What? Four ~ five years? It has gone from "barely usable" and "lacking in even basic features" to "woah! You can make that with FreeCAD?". Also, the community and third party support and contributions have also exploded. This is vital for the survival of a project like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@Bro666 @DeltaWye
FreeCAD can cope with low end, sketch-and-pad work. New users seem quite happy. It really needs a usability upgrade to help on-boarding though. More visual interaction feedback would help a lot. A verb-noun UI too. Start a command, which then guides what selections are needed.

For high end and surfacing work it's a non starter.

We need more people with programming, CAD and usability skills. A rare combination, it seems.

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