Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-2024-install-guide
@davidrevoy Thanks for the detailed post!
What's wrong with the Flatpak package for Krita?
It's Verified on Flathub, which means it's officially maintained by Krita's developers. It's linked as a download option on the Krita site. Though it says "Maintained by the community," which is strange.
The Color Management & HDR Wayland protocol seems close. They seem to be waiting for implementations. See this Mesa draft MR from last month: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/28762
& Weston: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/issues/467
@jnodesu @davidrevoy the fact that color management in Wayland is "close" offers little comfort to people who need to get things done _now_ ;)
@purusov @davidrevoy I'm only offering my excitement about it being close.
Stay on X11 now, and when CM + the ICC profile portal are merged and compositors have implemented them, creatives (whether they be artists, video editors, photographers, or anyone who deals with color) can use Wayland.
> It's Verified on Flathub, which means it's officially maintained by Krita's developers.
It just mean it got verified and an icon at a point. Not a seal of approval.
Eg. https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.krita/commits/master/ & https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.krita/graphs/contributors : not a single nickname in this list are part of weekly IRC meeting/decisions, or assigned to official bug-fix (as far as I know).
It really is a community package, and can be very serious, good, well done, but not officially beta-tested afaik.