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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (4 children)

dont forget how they expect you to compile it. some projects offer a nice .msi for windows, a .whatever for mac, and then linux users just get a link to their github. i mean cmon.

edit: i'm not talking specifically about gimp, my dudes.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

That's false, not sure why you would say that. Literally just visit the download page

https://krita.org/en/download/

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

i see what you did there

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The fuck are you talking about. It's available in all the repositories

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

not all software.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

compiling a program takes like 2 clicks dude

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"They" most of the times is solo devs and you can't blame them for that. GIMP does have flatpak, appimages, etc.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

solo devs can spin windows executables and mac installer but not linux..?

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

I switched to Linux because there were almost no good open source apps on Windows. The comparison is not fair considering how drastically the parameters are changing.

Also a lot of solo devs do try to maintain some community repos.

I'm not trying to disagree but I haven't come across any projects that only wanted the Linux users to build. You can correct me.