"At least as good"??? Gimp only gained a reasonable amount of dynamic range sometime in the past few years. Photoshop had it close to _thirty years ago_. And

"At least as good"??? Gimp only gained a reasonable amount of dynamic range sometime in the past few years. Photoshop had it close to _thirty years ago_. And the GUI is ... hostile, to put it lightly. I'd love for Gimp to be a contender but I don't see it happening any time soon. Though I can finally use it for some stuff, the Photoshop envy is strong. And LibreOffice? Oy. It's "ok....ish" for solo work (in that it doesn't actively set my computer on fire) but every time I've attempted to use it in a group setting (coworkers, friends, lawyers) I've had to apologize and fire up MSOffice. I HATE being beholden to evil cloud lock-in but at least Google Docs works. LibreOffice just mutilates formatting and brings shame. :/ Perhaps a mercy killing of Star.. no.. Open... no... LibreOffice would free the shackled developers for more fruitful pursuits. (I really like Abiword for solo stuff, when I need more than plain text. Limited scope and it actually achieves what it tries to do.) I think you're immensely right about infrastructure tho -- the "war" is over, F/OSS won. And that pipeline for new developers is a great point too! Plus the fact that F/OSS development is now often funded by for-profit companies who hire employees to do what they need done, and we all benefit. I get to have LLVM, BoringSSL and who knows how many thousands of security fixes for free, yay. I can't speak to Blender and Krita, I have no experience with them. Maybe they're great and the industry standard in their field.