(on a side note does anyone know any good foss photo editors that are good for making memes)
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re side question: I'm new to meming, image editing generally, and FOSS image editors.
Over the last month or so, I've tried a bunch except for Gimp (which the last time I checked had about 3.4 trillion things I don't need) for meming:
- A Photo Tool Libre
- Dibuja
- Krita
- Ksnip
- Pinta
- Photoflare
- probably some more I've forgotten
... and I keep coming back to Photopea (actually, Photocrea, a locally-installed version of Photopea). And it's not because I'm some Photoshop expert who finds it familiar. I'm an ingenue, who somehow can work out and (often) achieve what I want in Photopea, unlike the FOSS options.
All the others have issues for me, ranging from annoying niggles to absolute showstoppers. Just yesterday, I finally lost it with Krita and rage-uninstalled it.
The only FOSS ones I sometimes use are Ksnip (a screenshot tool with some editing features) and Pinta (for barely more than scaling and cropping), and I shudder at the thought of dealing with its UI. (Libadwaita, i.e. "fuck you, your OS, your theme and everything you ever thought you knew about UIs!")
I also managed to install a CLI tool for some basic meming:
