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> another benefit would be a sudden surge in demand for Linux based software products and services and hardware.

It's primarily legacy software that doesn't support Linux. Gaming aside, new software needs to support Mac for sure and mobile in most cases, so it supports Linux as a matter of course. If it's development, server, or VFX related, it specifically needs to support Linux in order to get traction today. Look at all the Electron apps, and the "Progressive Web Apps" that are the choice for delivering user-facing applications.

The Adobe suite, and Microsoft Office, go back about 30 years. They're legacy software at this point. Not everything new supports Linux, but much of it does. Affinity doesn't support Linux, but Pixeluvo does.

Sorry but if this would be the goal of the sub, it would be a total failure. I think some people don't get how bad the reputation from /r/linux is. Sadly I don't think that the mods can do anything against the toxic climate. Every subreddit which involves politics becomes more or less toxic. Free Software is politics with an agenda. At this point some people even don't bother anymore. We had a bundle deal for pixeluvo on /r/linux_gaming. Because the program isn't free software nobody bothered to post this on /r/linux. This sub has just a bad reputation for Stallmanism at this point.

Maybe Pixeluvo -- It's 35$ but basic functions are easy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/314500/Pixeluvo/

Free demo if the image isnt over a certain W x H res

http://www.pixeluvo.com

Most importantly the text tool is pretty good.

Sometimes. For basic photo operations theres a abandoned paid Linux App called Pixeluvo -- http://www.pixeluvo.com/ (obviously not ideal but useful)

Krita has its place in the Artists toolbox/workbelt. It can do much that GIMP and Photoshop can't.

Serif Affinity Suite, Pixeluvo, and other commercial software competes with various parts of Adobe's bundled software suite.

> Can I be buying something that is less expensive that still offers Pro level utility? > > I know that DC reader allows us to read pdf's, but a surprising number of people seem to "NEED" Adobe Pro.

I've discovered that you need to have a healthy knowledge of the workflows and some knowledge of PDF file format options before attempting to understand if your users have managed to become dependent on some proprietary bit of sub-functionality or not.

It's a complicated enough format in practice that I don't believe one can make blanket statements about drop-in compatibility without caveats or limitations.

> the Affinity suite of services is close enough and only costs $60.

That seems to be a perpetual license price. I didn't know it was so cheap; is that for the whole suite? We have some licenses of Pixeluvo which is similarly inexpensive, but just a raster editor and not a whole suite.

Obviously the competitors to Adobe's suite are almost all individual apps. For Photoshop, look at Affinity, Pixeluvo at the low end, GIMP, and for drawing, Krita. Blackmagic's free/pro split release of Da Vinci Resolve has been well received by those who might otherwise consider Premiere, despite Resolve originally being a pro-level colorist package and not much of a video editor.

They've proved they don't have to add features. Nobody wants to compete with an established institution like Photoshop, unless there's some other market disruption they can try to leverage, like web-apps, or open-source, or VR or something.

I'm impressed that Affinity and Pixeluvo are even competing in that market.

Affinity and Pixeluvo are cost-effective and deserve a look if you're editing photos, in addition to Gimp. For painting and art, though, Krita is considered first class and is open-source.

• Pixeluvo is very inexpensive, but I have no idea what fraction of your needs it might meet. There's a trial version for Linux in <code>.deb</code> and <code>.rpm</code>.
• If drawing, then Krita is the obvious app to recommend, as it's for digital drawing.
• Vector drawing is the domain of Inkscape, which is not unlike Adobe Illustrator.

> .SRCINFO will get updated

updpkgsums:

> .44. buildfile=${1:-PKGBUILD}

looks like it would update the PKGBUILD? plus if you were to do something like this, wouldn't makepkg --skipchecksums be more appropriate?

I think maybe that should never be the first move, without making sure the file are actually wrong. sha256sum pixeluvo-1.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm and compare that to the pkgbuild manually to make sure. If they do not match remove the downloaded files and redownload the PKGBUILD and try again (corruption or version mismatch).

I'd ask u/StaticInformation what makepkg's output looked like. Did aria give you a d/l progress? is the file pixeluvo*.rpm there?

Does manually doing

/usr/bin/aria2c -UWget -s4 http://www.pixeluvo.com/downloads/pixeluvo-1.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm -o ./testing.aria.out

work?

Inkscape is my first bet for what you are trying to do.

There is also Pixlr, Google it up because it's presented in three different online editors and it works very well in Chrome.

If you want to pay money, there is pixeluvo. Some Corel software is available for Linux too.

Also you can run Adobe stuff in Wine.