It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They make things so much easier, having to make copies of every layer every time just to keep the original in case you need to re-do something half an hour later is super annoying.

Especially if you do multiple different things with a layer. Do you really have the patience to make backuo copies of a layer after every little edit you apply to it?

And then let's say step 2 of 5 didn't turn out like you want. Backup copies or not, you still have to re-do everything from 2 to 5 because of GIMPs destructive nature as of right now

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

oh so it's basically like a COW fs but for graphics editing? That's pretty slick. I'm sure you could implement something fairly similar to that natively, though it would be a decent bit of work.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

It's going to be part of the 3.0 release, after what feels like an eternity. The 2.99 dev release has it already, I might try that