While Krita has been pretty good for most of its existence it really wasn't until about ten years ago that it started having a life of it's own outside KOffice,

While Krita has been pretty good for most of its existence it really wasn't until about ten years ago that it started having a life of it's own outside KOffice, then add some time to pick up more features and gain a reputation and you're right at 6 years or-so.