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Just to put it out there: There are some excellent options for a linux-native photography stack which also work on windows and mac if you’re interested in trying those out before switching. Darktable and Rawtherapee are both excellent raw developers and Digikam for library management and light editing. You should find that you can pass files between each for a seamless workflow. If you did switch to Linux you would also get Geeqie which is blazing fast for inspecting, culling and rating raw files and is also interoperable with the above apps.

A really good resource for FOSS and Linux photography is pixls.us

FWIW .psd support in GIMP is getting pretty good. Not sure what your use case is but it might be worth checking out if you haven’t used it for a while.

I haven’t gone too deep with Krita yet but I did try out some digital painting in it a few months ago and the brushes and brush dynamics were really nice to use.

Definitely! There are some really powerful plugins coming out for the 3.x series now too and there’s even more great stuff to look forward to in the 3.2 release due out soon. Good times indeed 🤩

Might that bill be of the big beautiful variety?

I am way too happy using GIMP now to make use of this.