What do you not find user friendly about Inkscape? I only use it for trivial tasks so I'm curious to know how it falls short for more professional work.

[–] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Inkscape has been very unstable for me. I can never use it for more than 30 minutes without running into bugs or crashing, so I just stopped using it a few months ago

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Do you use the version that come with your distro? No issue with mine. I mean, I have the occasional one but nothing that would push me to stop using it.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 15 hours ago

Same for me use it professional and private. I think it hits 95% of what I do. Other than the trace tool I’m over illustrator.

[–] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I use arch so it's usually up to date, and I've never had good luck with software so I probably just got unlucky a lot, also I've been using wayland since forever and apps just lave being incompatible with it

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 17 hours ago

I use Mint, I have no idea if it is running Wayland or not ;)

I liked Arch a lot (it was the second distro I ever used) up until I realized I needed not constant updates and the most recent versions of my apps. So, I tried Debian and then Mint and never looked back.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

Been a while since I've tried to use it for anything serious myself but recently I tried to just crop an SVG that had random extra empty space in its canvas and it was an adventure. I think I gave up after 20 minutes and gave it back to the designer who has an Illustrator license

[–] ctenidium@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I think it always depends on the workflow you "grew up" with. I for instance learned with Inkscape, so for my use cases Inkscape most of the time is a no-brainer.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Inkscape is a better vector application than Illustrator. User friendliness arguments tend to come from users raised on Adobe and expecting alternatives to work the same way.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

I mean, sure, I learned with Adobe products, but I also think the UX in Photoshop is pretty annoying.

I'm not sure it's that easy to determine which one is objectively the better app. There are too many subjective factors.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

Can it make a circle?

[–] huppakee 5 points 19 hours ago

Graphite is a free, open source vector and raster graphics editor, available now in alpha. Get creative with a fully nondestructive editing workflow that combines layer-based compositing with node-based generative design

sounds promising!

[–] DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

I always assumed GIMP was the answer to this question. Interested to see even more options out there. Great share, thanks!