GIMP 3.0 is over 96% complete! The GIMP team got sick at the Libre Arts conference over the summer, hence the setback to the release schedule but they are now back making good progress.

Along with non-destructive editing and a colour overhaul we've all been waiting for, longstanding critics of the UI/UX will be pleased to hear that GIMP are setting up a UX repository and are looking to build a dedicated team of designers to develop this.

All of these things look set to make the GIMP project feel a lot more current and dynamic. I can't wait!

And if anyone wants to help out it looks like testing/reporting, donations and updating the help manual are all welcomed by the project at the moment.

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

true but fear not it can be ran on wine by compiling a custom version and installing .net and everything it needs, but its quite buggy and there is no opencl hardware acceleration on wine from my testing.
and why they dont wanna make a linux build can additionally be found here:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/98932-faq-affinity-on-linux/

[–] Mist3rS1r@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There's Winapps, too. It isn't very easy to install the first time and requires a bit of group policy tweaking on the VM to remove compression, though. Other than that, it works well on my end.

https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

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

I seen smth like this but ngl the preformance might be worse due to vms overhead there is also wine overhead yes but the vm overhead is worse.

[–] Mist3rS1r@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It uses the KVM hypervisor, so it's not too bad, at least on my computer (Ryzen 7 5700X3D, RX 5700 XT). It might be worth your while.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

ohhh