[alias_neo]

I'm exclusively a Linux user these days, have been for ~4-5 years. Photoshop CC, for my wife's anniversary gift was the last time I used Windows because I had to, that was ~4 years ago.

I'm 100% for FOSS, I support it, I'm happy to donate to it, but honestly there aren't always FOSS tools that can replace what's out there.

I honestly tried using GIMP to do the work I needed, but have you tried using GIMP circa 2015 on a 4K display? It's unusable. Even without the scaling issues it's harder to use than CC, and I'd additionally had experience with PS previously.

Further, the IDE I use every day for my work (on Linux), is second to none, and there is simply nothing comparable in the FOSS space (I've tried many options); If I want to be productive, I _must_ use this IDE.

I'd love if we could get more money into FOSS projects to make them first-class citizens, and I'm trying to do my part, I just don't know that it's an easy problem to solve.

[jarfil]

I have experience with both PS and GIMP, and for simple tasks they are pretty much the same. Actually PS does some things in a slightly less intuitive way.

The strong points of PS are a better optimization of some common professional workflows, and the plugin ecosystem... which most people using it just once or twice a year don't need.