What are Reddit's favorite Digital Painting Apps?

The reality is that small open source projects can't compete against huge behemoths like Photoshop, but they can adopt a niche market and focus on that to achieve excellence.

It's had some funding troubles in the past (bad accounting advice). If you use it, please consider donating. :)

This is the best I can do. All the dimensions are estimates but it seemed to work when I tried it on my own printer.

8.5x11" printouts with a 0.25" margin at the bottom/sides
There's an outlined version if you wanna use your own color paper and a blue version if you wanna use your color printer
Each one has an SVG text link. I can't upload PDFs directly, but you can open either one of these in Inkscape and save it directly as a PDF, and then use any PDF program (Foxit, Adobe, MacOS Preview, whatever) to get a pretty accurate printout.

Instructions are minimal and only on the outline version, I'd recommend sticking to the video.

LibreOffice A free alternative for anyone who can't afford Mictosoft suites, even has a pretty comprehensive Powerpoint alternative called Impress thats included. Both of which are compatible with Microsoft Office and Powerpoint. The forums say that they can have a few issues going back and forth between the programs but I havent had any yet.

Scribus is a good free open source Microsoft Publisher alternative.

Sure! I think my photo with a link on the paper would not prove a lot ... so I just made this page https://www.photopea.com/reddit.html with a link to this AMA :)

For those who are saying this artwork is stolen

https://medibang.com/picture/mw1905191136083640004532251/

I did I bit of research that all of this users artwork was posted on another site before they got Reddit.

Krita is an excellent open source (FREE) digital painting program. Goes well beyond the other free versions of programs I've tried and this is my go-to when working on an on-screen drawing tablet. The newest alpha they're showing is even more promising, if you're a digital artist pay attention to this one.

Sculptris is a really fun 3D "digital clay" sculpting program from Pixeologic. Start out with a "ball of clay" and mold it to your liking. Probably not cutting edge, but for those of us who only dabble in 3D and create models for painting reference it's fantastic.

I would recommend anyone to play with either of the above, but Sculptris works fine without a graphics tablet etc. and can probably be used by most people right now as they read this.

There's at least three feet of clearance so quit worrying so much. Even if he did get eaten he'd be shot out the blow hole anyways so it's fine.

The Document Foundation (TDF) announces the availability of LibreOffice 5.3.1, the first minor release of the LibreOffice 5.3 family released in early February, with 100 bugs or regressions fixed against the previous version.

LibreOffice 5.3.1 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters and power users, as it is focused on bleeding edge features.

LibreOffice 5.3.1 is immediately available for download from the following link: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/.

They offer a self-hosting license. So your company can buy the software and host it themselves. It's probably really cheap for what it offers but it may lack some enterprise features like LDAP / AD integration.

LibreOffice's license permits it to copy code from OpenOffice while OpenOffice's less permissive doesn't allow it to copy LibreOffice's code. This means every single fix you're going to see is probably already in LibreOffice and they improve their software on their own.

There's no reason to use OpenOffice since 2011.

LibreOffice exists for 6 years now and made vast improvements. The overwhelming majority of Sun OpenOffice.org developers and community moved to LibreOffice when Oracle took over Sun Microsystems. The Apache OpenOffice is kept online because of a minority of developers that do not want to let go, but who cannot actually maintain it. They mislead Windows users by not mentioning that LibreOffice exists.

Krita is a fork of GIMP and is made for drawing. It's free (although there is a paid version designed for tablets but this is just a redesign of the GUI and doesn't offer any new feutures. It's also based on an older version of Krita) and Open Source and worth checking out. They recently released version 4 and it's pretty good.

Draw: Procreate is the best, and has many tutorials online.

Games: Civ 6, Darkest Dungeon, Invisible Inc, Bastion, Transistor, Binding of Issac: Rebirth, Stardew Valley, Siralim 3. Without knowing your tastes in games, I just put a bunch in.

Because MS wants to make lots of money.

Why not try LibreOffice completely free? It does absolutely everything that MS proprietary software does that the vast majority of users are likely to ever need.

https://www.libreoffice.org

Definitely! This is just a prototype I made up in figma.

I started learning the basics of figma while earning this google design certificate and then from there just found lots of tutorials on youtube for specific things i wanted to incorporate.

And now I'm on the final step of actually publishing the design and programming it to be fully functional. Hope that helps!

Open source does not mean you can do whatever you like with it. You have to meet the licence criteria. These are varied but may include things like:

Giving attribution to the original authors
Providing links to your modified and original source
Not misrepresenting it as your own work
Not charging a fee for the open source component

From the LibreOffice licence: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/licenses/

CompleteOffice may be violating these terms:

"All distribution of Covered Software in Source Code Form, including any Modifications that You create or to which You contribute, must be under the terms of this License. You must inform recipients that the Source Code Form of the Covered Software is governed by the terms of this License, and how they can obtain a copy of this License. You may not attempt to alter or restrict the recipients’ rights in the Source Code Form."

Correct, but it's a start. Sensitize people to the dangers of the cloud, and hopefully soon enough they'll realize a Linux PC with LibreOffice is currently the only actually viable safe option to go with regards to government and military PCs.

I'm happy to see the list of LibreOffice users slowly growing since I last checked a year or two ago, when IIRC only France and Italy's defense departments were listed as users: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/who-uses-libreoffice/

making it easier: krita

One of the most user-friendly FOSS programs I've ever seen. It's a delight to use. I don't have anything to make, I just enjoy doodling in it for fun.

OpenOffice is not getting serious development for over 8 years now. Please don't use it, the only thing it has is the name recognition.

Use LibreOffice if you want a FOSS office suite.

It is an opensource digital painting application. Here is the wiki and website for more info.

Krita had a successful kiskstarter campaign last year and this is it's second campaign.

They successfully delivered the goals of first one and this kickstarter is about making it more powerfull.

Consider becoming a donator if you want to accelerate the development process. The more full-time professional programmers the project can hire, the faster it will surpass Microsoft Office in features and quality.

You should probably switch to LibreOffice. OpenOffice is a dead product as it was last updated January 2011. LibreOffice is maintained.

FYI, this is apparently the first release that includes a native 64-bit version for Windows. I noticed the LibreOffice website didn't correctly steer me to that on a Windows machine, so here's a link for Windows x86_64 in case you need it for any reason.

Sure, I'm well aware of that model (being an openSUSE user :) ) but I don't think that's what's happening here. According to the Libreoffice site TDF does not provide professional support for LibreOffice and there is no reference to LibreOffice Premium on their website that I can find.

I don't know. The only thing I don't like about https://www.libreoffice.org/ is the animated download gif. I really dislike the logo and the animation looks weird imo.

But other than that, what's wrong with the website?

Did you know that there is a free online version of photoshop? Me neither. When I discovered there is, I decided it is better to procrastinate than to work, so here we are.

I am no artist but I tried not to harm our Void Sage too much, given there is a limited amount of free assets. Hope you like it.

Not forever.

From the FAQ:

>How long can I use this plan?
>
>You can use the plan as long as you are working at a qualified school. Your eligibility may be re-verified at any time. When your Office 365 Education plan expires:
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> * The Office applications enter a reduced-functionality mode, which means that you can view documents, but you cannot edit or create new documents.
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> * Online services associated with the school email address—for example, Office Online and OneDrive—will no longer work.
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> * If your plan expires, you can extend your plan by re-verifying your status as an educator, or by moving to an Office 365 personal plan

Viable, long-term alternative: LibreOffice.

It's free, open source, works with Microsoft Office files, and none of my teachers were any the wiser.

There's certainly differences between the two, but it's more of a trade off than a deficiency. For example, there's some rarely used (but useful) function that Excel has that Calc doesn't, but Calc supports regex matching which Excel lacks (this is a big deal to me). There's a few other small things, but nothing I would consider a deal breaker.

If you really want cloud support, Google Docs is quite nice, and it's free, too. Otherwise, I just use Dropbox, also free, and save my school files in there.

You misread.

> We were quite confident we wouldn’t have any problems because when we setup the Krita Foundation in 2013, we took the advice of a local tax consultant on how to setup the Foundation and its administration. We registered for VAT with the tax authorities and kept our books as instructed by the consultant.

LibreOffice - www.libreoffice.org

Free, fully featured, not trapped in a browser, not beholden to network latency, and not locking you into a company's data trap.

Once you start using LibreOffice then you'll wonder why anybody still pays for Office software.

> ... Libre Office, it's Microsoft Office XP and in the last 10 years has seen 0 improvements in functionality.

That's completely false. LibreOffice has within its five years of existence constantly added new and improved functionality: https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/new-features/

Perhaps you were thinking of OpenOffice.org, which stalled and then got forked by LibreOffice (because that's what you can do when free software gets stalled)?

There’s an app called procreate that does this, if I’m understanding you correctly. It’ll record all of your drawings and play them back as a Time-Lapse video of the process. It’s probably my favorite drawing app, and definitely the one I use the most. I highly recommend it if that’s what you’re looking for!

Krita, and I'll answer for you. This software seems seriously amazing for a browser-based app and it definitely has huge graphical capabilities. However, you need to consider that it's not just the designer that makes the software good, but also your browser manufacturer.

I wouldn't recommend this for illustration because at the moment, Chrome and FF (I've only tried these two) struggle immensely when using a tablet. They don't register strokes well and god forbid you move your hand a little faster.

Although, if you need some kind of interface to edit your illustrations, pimp them a bit or color correct them, this could do it.

NOT GIMP!! NOT GIMP!!!!

Krita is what they need to use....

https://krita.org/en/

You put those kids in front of GIMP and nothing will get done. Also, try to explain to the school board why the kids are using software named "GIMP"...

VLC uses Qt, but it only looks good on macOS, where it doesn't use Qt. Then there is Krita, a GIMP/Photoshop alternative. Screenshot

Iiks emmä ny tiiä, näkeeks kaikki jos laitan tänne mut siis joo okei, ai kauhee siis jänskättää :D Joku on sanonu mua Shakiranki näkösex :D

Täs ne nyt ois!

"The Document Foundation has been made aware of an unofficial version of LibreOffice on the Windows Store. We are investigating further, but we want to be clear: this is not an official version created by The Document Foundation, so the app's page is misleading. The only official source of the software (which can be downloaded for free, i.e. without any cost for the end user) is LibreOffice website: https://www.libreoffice.org. lso, the money from the Windows Store version is not collected by The Document Foundation."

Tacky. Trying to be greedy and charge money for free software.

The advanced foreground selection was quite hard. It is used e.g. in MagicCut. I wanted to reach the quality of remove.bg (where you pay $2 per image), but it still does not work that well.

Anyway, I think MagicCut works better than all other free tools and many commercial tools, so it can save you a lot of money :)

It's a little MMORPG he's been working on that you can play right from your mobile's (or desktop's) browser.

Check it out here, it's free!

Once you're good and addicted, stop by /r/buttlasers for lasers and tiny butts!

Edit: ofcourse /r/buttlasers is a thing. God damn reddit.

I designed the characters using a miniature maker called Hero Forge: https://www.heroforge.com/# (Highly recommended) I then traced basic outlines using Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/en/ Applied a filter to make the lines look more organic and then coloured the whole thing in Photoshop

> Amazing that they just don't seem to care about fixing this.

"They" is a volunteer-driven, community open source project with very limited resources (compared to the vast size of the userbase). Suggesting "they" don't care is very unfair! The community is working super hard but needs help: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

Yes, there is no reason... Blame the packager of your distribution, or the package manager ? Next week the Krita team will release 3.0. They'll offer an *.appimage ( for a quick test, try the appimage of the RC1 ; https://krita.org/item/krita-3-0-release-candidate-1-released/ ) so you can install/run last Krita without affecting the library/stability of your system.

Most OS projects of this scope have a large corporate sponsor or a source of revenue. Chromium has Google and Firefox has search engine revenue. LibreOffice has none of these. TDF doesn't hire a single programmer and all the bug triaging, regression bisecting is done by volunteers. So if you're looking for a projected to help out, consider them by starting here.

They could really use your help triaging bugs, helping bisect regressions, with documentation, or answering Ask LO questions.

EDIT: they're starting a Bug Hunting Session for 5.2 now here.

I hope the Sifr icon set becomes available generally for Qt/GTK (especially KDE) https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/EN-Project_images/4.2NewFeatures/FlatIcons/Screenshotfrom2013-11-1915-33-23.png

I designed an app like this as a case study for my portfolio, but built it as a standalone app that would pull data from UDisc so it wouldn't clutter up the app itself.

Here's the prototype.

I've chosen to go online and use photopea . It's like photoshop except it's on the browser and it's free. There are some differences but overall, I've found it to be quite useful.

Automatic updates would be good, indeed, but it's pretty complex to do properly. It is being worked on, as per this talk from FOSDEM '18: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/ode_automatic_updater/

Of course, as with all things open source, more help would be very welcome: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/

Note that while Oracle got the brand OpenOffice when they bought Sun Microsystems a very long time ago, they did not do something with it. Almost all the developers went to LibreOffice, which is a lot more up to date.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Uhhh... I don't know, but it feels like you tried very hard to fail. Like you, I was interested in what the project was, so I just googled it. Boom, first hit was their homepage, which promptly has the usual "get involved" site that eventually sends you to their repo. Took all of 10 seconds. (their "developer" section on "get involved" also has all the info (or links to it) that you'd need.

Admittedly, their source-code browsing site is not as comfortable as github. Or maybe it's just that I'm much more used to github these days. But still, I can't help but think that most of your rant is just about you being unable to interact with a project's normal webpage, just because it wasn't github.

I like it! But please get a real vector drawing program and try with that!

Adobe Illustrator is the standard, but Inkscape will do a lot of the same things, and is free/open source.

I think Krita (https://krita.org) is what most people really what when they search for a photoshop alternative.

Krita is geared towards painting rather than editing, but IMO it's a lot more intuitive than GIMP no matter what you use it for.

> OpenOffice.

Or rather OpenOffice's community continuation, LibreOffice (it's pretty much just a rename from when the community broke away from Oracle after Oracle bought Sun).

It can be downloaded here.

This is vector artwork, so it was created in something like Illustrator ($$$) or Inkscape (free). Vector art apps like that draw using shapes and lines and bezier curves instead of just laying digital paint down on pixels like Photoshop does. Once it was done he did import it into Photoshop to overlay the texture that makes it look like aged paper.

Here's a direct link to Procreate's teaser page:

https://procreate.art/ipad/preview

Painting on 3D models. This is next level. Hopefully Procreate's success and pro-level features will inspire more companies to develop true pro apps for iPad.

This should read: China bans peppa pig because she’s not Chinese.

“This just in! China has a new cartoon coming out called Commie Pigs! Their main character is Sgt. Pepper Pig!”

https://drawception.com/panel/drawing/t3IW6336/communist-pig/

I flat out stop bothering with Photoshop and just use Photopea for everything these days. Granted my needs aren't turbo sophisticated, but it's still pretty versatile alternative with no overhead.

Did a quick search and found it here: https://www.wallpaperflare.com/purple-landscape-reflection-dusk-evening-pink-sky-lake-wallpaper-cvxww (just select the resolution you need and click the teal "Download Wallpaper" button)

Note: If you wish to have the color to be more vibrant like OP's version (probably monitor setting or camera filter), just go to photopea and tweak around brightness/contrast + hue/saturation :)

Ha, yeah. I’ve used Photopea before, since I don’t own any professional photo editing software, but for memes, I found Mematic to be a much faster and simpler solution.

I discovered it yesterday. The “forbidden tiddy milk” meme I posted here was my first attempt at using the app. Hungry snack boi was the second. Figured this sub could use some OC. :)

Btw, the original painting is called “Escaping Criticism”, by Spanish surrealist Pere Borrell del Caso (1874 - I rounded up 145 to 150 :P).

Appears to be just a rename/clarification of the LibreOffice packages? You were always trailing behind with LibreOffice, unless you installed libreoffice-fresh. Now it's clear you are doing so with name libreoffice-still.

Edit: it's just alignment with upstream naming. Both versions are stable ;)

Someone had mentioned in that other post that Paypal added 2$ to the account, so you cant close it. However you can donate that 2$ pretty easy.

I just gave mine to Libreoffice:

https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/

King: "Good job Ser Alexander, you hath saved my kingdom from vicious snake cultists. You have also proven to be quite the tactician, so anything you want, I shall give you."

Alexander: "Helmet."

King: "Erm.. what was that?"

Alexander: "Helmet."

King: "A helmet? W-what sort of helmet?"

Alexander: "All of the helmets."

King: "Umm..."

Try LibreOffice. But I don't recommend their opendocument format for saving and instead prefer .docx format.

I've heard to export your resume in pdf format to ensure prospective employers see the file as you intended (LibreOffice has an Export as pdf option).

You can download Open Office or Libre Office. They're open source versions of Word and several other Microsoft Office products. The two are basically identical, but Libre Office is updated more often and Open Office is now being run by Apache. You'll find people who prefer one over the other (due to the way development is going), but they're both nearly identical. Both will open Word files as well as save documents created in the software as a Word file.

https://krita.org

...free.

If you are on a Mac, Pixelmator is impressive.

Or if you have an iPad, there are tons of great options.

https://drawception.com/

This is one of the most fun sites, with one of the best communities.

It's the "whisper down the lane" game only that one person draws an image and the next person describes it, following a person drawing an image to the description and so on.

It's hilarious and everyone should try it. It's been around for years and doesn't receive the love it deserves!

I used Figma, a free UI Design / Prototyping tool similar to Sketch. It's been really awesome to work with thus far.

I got the original images from each team's respective wikipedia page. The logo is an SVG (scalable vector graphic) file, which you can edit.

Sketch is currently the market leader. It's not free, but it's not hundreds of dollars like Adobe products are. Figma is another option, they are a quick up-and-comer, they are a monthly subscription based product, they do offer a free tier for up to 3 projects, though. Good luck.

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-available-from-the-windows-store/ > And we wanted to do the same as on Steam, and put a price-tag on Krita in the store. Publishing Krita on the Store takes time, and the Krita project really needs funding at the moment. (Note, though, that buying Krita in the Windows Store means part of your money goes to Microsoft: it’s still more effective to donate).

This is the fifth bugfix release of the 5.2.x branch of LibreOffice which contains new features and program enhancements. As such, the version is stable and is suitable for all users. This version may contain a few annoying bugs which will be fixed in the next bugfix versions to come. Detailed release notes can be accessed from the list below.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/

I use Inkscape. It is a vector graphics editor. It has a nice feature where you can do File > Save As > PDF and there is a checkbox: PDF + LaTeX: omit text in PDF, and create LaTeX file. Include this in your document and then it will render the PDF in LaTeX along with any text you put in while in InkScape, but the text will be generated by LaTeX at compile.

There was a post here a while ago that showed this off (albeit it showed a number of cool things off, so it may be confusing.)

best take down defence i have seen in a long while, every freaking time she did it, she is so fit. Amazing fighter. "To sum it all up picture":

https://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/5-6/M7hRCePT9G-10.png

> Why does LO have all of the MS Office software equivalents....except for OneNote?

Because... nobody has volunteered to implement one :-) New features don't just appear by magic, and someone has to work on them. As an open source project, LibreOffice's features are implemented either by volunteers who are "scratching their own itches", or by certified developers working on behalf of customers.

If you really want a OneNote equivalent in LibreOffice, get involved and make it happen! Or consider funding a certified developer to work on it. Those are the best ways to make wishes a reality :-)

Includes:

Start Menu
Taskbar (Centered and Left Alignments)
App Indicators
Jump Lists
Hover Flyouts (Task View and Search)
Quick Settings
Microsoft Teams Chat
Search
Widgets Pane
Notification Center

all made from scratch in Figma

Link to duplicate: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1035524331682993208/Shell-Template---Windows-11

Fwiw this might be an option in the future:

https://www.photopea.com/

Free, entirely browser-based. ISTR the author talking about it in Reddit in the past. I've never used it beyond taking a quick look at it, so ymmv.

Also, kudos to you for your pic! Loved the concept and execution! Literally did a squee and showed my wife, who has far more experience than I in such things. She liked it too :)

For context, I made this when I was playing skribbl.io with my friend and he made a comic to represent the word "Spartacus" in 160 seconds. In retaliation I made this. I am not sorry in the slightest.

https://medibang.com/book/5u2105051137236990020434095/view/

Direct link to view the comic! Well done, /u/lui5-breakfast-1022 !

I assume you mean more prototyping and wireframing than a presentational showcase mockup.

Figma is free, cross-platform, and can be run in the browser or as a desktop app on Mac/Windows. Lots of framework templates around the web if you are trying to match specific components. Easy mirroring on devices. You can do basic interactivity (tapping an area to go to another screen).

Otherwise, I work with whatever the client wants. InVision and Sketch are great too.

They seem to be pretty fickle with their samples. I've ordered packages before and they've come loaded with samples, but other times they don't include any samples at all. Guess you just have to pray to the snail gods to spare you some samples in your next package haha.

EDIT: Went in search of the snail god, was not disappointed

Much more interesting read about size, memory and speed improvements, lines of code removed and servers load decreased: http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-06-03-libreoffice-3-4-0.html

And don't miss last link from original article: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-4-new-features-and-fixes/

Have you looked at https://www.libreoffice.org/ ? It has open sourced options to MS office products and some other stuff too. As long as you aren't using really esoteric features, it's essentially fully file compatible. Totally free. No subscription.

Office: Libreoffice (forked from OpenOffice quite a while ago)
Corel Draw: Inkscape, perhaps? (I've never used Corel Draw, but it seems to be vector drawing.)

It is vector image which I made in Inkscape (graphics editor) :P

But you can make panel like that in polybar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/61r8pf/windowmaker/dfgsd7f/?st=j5kuxa8l&sh=7f7f2f91

If you want such a feature, join in and help the volunteers to make it, or consider funding a certified developer to work on it! See here:

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/frequently-asked-questions/#features

How much time did it take you to draw everything?

Also, if you are interested in drawing your own manga, there is currently the Jump Tezuka Manga Contest, where the 1st and 2nd place will get published in the Shonen Jump, as well as win prizes.

And submissions are open until September 1st. Here : https://medibang.com/contest/jumptezuka100th/?locale=en

Practice, my dude. You'll be surprised how quickly you improve. I'd recommend drawing random stuff to begin with, that way it's not nearly as frustrating when you mess up.

If you're interested in digital art then you can't go far wrong with GIMP or Krita (both free).

Simple answer: no you don't need to worry.

This is an important reason to think about switching to LibreOffice. It's not just a better choice because it's free. The software freedom philosophy that underpins it is the most important thing- because writing is a human right, and no company should be allowed to be a middle-man to this process.

Libre Office is a popular free program that is compatible with Microsoft Office. It's basically an updated version of Open Office since it's based off Open Office. It doesn't use the ribbon interface though.

The Kingsoft Office website says they support MS Office documents, but I've never used it so can't say how well it works. Since it's free you can test it out to see.

Help us test the new cool feature: Align and Distribution snapping also known as SMART SNAPPING.

Download here:

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-dev/

Your Feedback here:

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues

For folks worried about losing MS Office, check out LibreOffice:

It's open source, free of charge, and works under Windows/Mac/Linux.

I personally use it for school so I know it gets the job done.

Hey just in case she doesn't know, she can get a completely free art program known as Krita It's completely free, open source, and a great art program overall that has way more features than just mspaint.

Tell her she did an AMAZING job with this

https://medibang.com/picture/v62009190009326320016811030/?sort=1&tagName=MyIdealWaifu_MyIdealHusbandoContest&tagId=346639&searchCategory=3&currentPage=1&viewContest=husbando_waifu

pls like I kinna want to win this competition

Not a bad effort.
If you need better tools. I can recommend Inkscape, free vector graphic editor. Makes it easy to alter flags in svg-format, which you can get on Wikipedia.

OpenOffice is an Apache Project. The official homepage links to sourceforge. So yes, that’s where you download the official releases.

However, back in 2010, LibreOffice was created as a fork from OpenOffice. A lot of the community and developers moved to LibreOffice, which many consider to be the successor of OpenOffice.

So unless there is a specific reason to use OpenOffice, you should download LibreOffice IMHO.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/

> For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required. Java is notably required for Base.

Article title is clickbait.

It's only "beyond LibreOffice" in the sense that neither you, nor anyone else, has chosen to implement it. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven, community open source project, with a small non-profit entity helping to organise it. If you really want a new feature, you can contribute some time back to the community that works so hard: https://www.libreoffice.org/community/get-involved/

Or you could consider funding a certified developer to work on the feature: https://www.documentfoundation.org/gethelp/developers/

That's the only way things will keep moving forward. New features don't happen by magic! Contribute back and we can all benefit :-)

You can use most distros without ever even touching the terminal, it is just faster most of the time. And with the software thing, generally there are alternatives to the software you already use which are sometimes the same or better than the one you use for windows. Libre Office is a good example.

> 2 Aseprite Steam version So Aseprite can be complied for free but steam version is paid. Most people are willing to pay for convince. If Godot was at sensible price like under $20 on steam I can imagine most steam users would pay for 4.0 while still having option to compile at a source for free

This can work but do not make people compile it themselves the way Aseprite does. Instead, do it the way Krita does it for its Steam release. Make it clear in the Steam description that buying through Steam is a way to help finance the project while also getting the convenience of automatic updates, while also providing a link to the Godot site. That way people get something out of it while also not being mislead, and you're not potentially turning away new users like others are concerned about.

So, while I strongly agree with putting Godot on Steam, I strongly disagree with following the Asesprite model of "buy it or compile it, fuck off". Follow Krita's lead here, they did it in a tasteful way that doesn't make people feel cheated or second-class.

Actually, Krita's a good project to look at for inspiration on how to get funding in general; it's not quite at the Blender level, but it's still doing pretty well in comparison to most niche OSS tools.

Krita is free and open source. It's not top tier, but they've been refining it so much over the years and it's really getting to be a great program where you can edit (including a puppet warp-type tool), paint, and animate all in the same app. For free.

It's kind of like Blender and, honestly, it's in its awkward years like Blender was where it's jammed full of features that work for the most part, but need to be polished.

Krita is one of the worlds premier illustration and art applications. The difference between it and other applications of that level (of which there are... two maybe three in total) is that it started on Linux and it's Open Source/FOSS.

https://krita.org/en/homepage/

We defined the vision for Krita as a painting application in 2010: https://dot.kde.org/2010/03/15/second-krita-sprint-ends-tea -- we did recently update the vision statement: https://krita.org/en/item/kritas-updated-vision/ . That one is a bit more subtle than you're making it out. It's true that we probably wouldn't accept patches for, say, website design functionality or page layout functionality (beyone what's needed for comics) or complex raw processing (the current raw importer, well, I want to give it the chop, actually).

If someone would sit down with Scott, our UX designer, and come up with a plan to majorly improve the selection tools, though, and then start coding, then it's open-arms-welcome! time. Same for adding more filters or blending modes. And people are actually doing that, so we're sitting pretty :-)

Krita is AMAZING, and it's free. Little bit of a learning curve on this one because it has so many features. You can find plenty of helpful videos on youtube though.

Paint.net is also free and while it has less features than Photoshop or Krita, it's extremely straight forward to use. Paint.net is even more useful when you add extra filter plug-ins that you can download for free from their site.