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Open source in books at school in India (lemmy.ml)

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[-] FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 113 points 9 months ago

So glad I'm finally able to What is Krita?.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 63 points 9 months ago

Baby don't hurt me

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 66 points 9 months ago

Don't hurt me
Brush tools.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Our textbooks (in Ukraine) used to include stuff on both windows and linux (specifically, linux mint with cinnamon), and included a chapter on libreoffice/openoffice

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Cool.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Gimp is better suited for this role

Krita is a art focused program

You also cannot add information to ~~blurted~~ blurred pictures, you can only approximate

[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 33 points 9 months ago

Take 2 people that have not used gimp or krita. Ask them to daw a circle, and see which software they are able to do it in.

Gimp is a ux nightmare (or at least it used to be i haven't used ot in years) I will try gimp 3 when it comes out in 2037

[-] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

Gimp hasn't changed a ton in the last three years.

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

GIMP 3.0 will be released this year, as far as I remember. (I already using the final test version for 3.0).

[-] lea@feddit.de 17 points 9 months ago

As someone coming from Photoshop it's really hard to get into Gimp with it missing the layer effects you'd expect, which you all have in Krita.

[-] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Krita is aimed for Digital Painting, not Photo Manipulation, Photi Manipulation it's GIMP's work.

[-] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago

I use Krita as an image editor and I prefer it.

[-] Indie59@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I’m just here for the blurted pictures

[-] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Gimp is an UI nightmare, I don't recommend it to anyone. Krita can't be worse.

[-] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Honestly i don't see the problem, i've been using GIMp since around 2013 or 2015, i never had issues with the UI

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 46 points 9 months ago

Very strange presentation of Krita, but I'll take it. The overview of what you'll be able to do doesn't actually list anything you can do, and the comic recommends using it to deblur photographs, which is definitely not something I would recommend Krita for.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 9 months ago

Or indeed something that is really possible with anything. If it's blurry it's broken. Learn your camera settings and take another.

[-] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's some surprisingly sci-fi stuff that's possible with image deconvolution. Not exactly practical, but it is possible to recover some information from a blurry photo.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, I'll wager computer generated blur is easier to undo than real physics generated blur.

There was that Canadian a few years ago who used a swirly blur on a picture of him raping kids, and the German police reversed it and had him locked up.

[-] DoYouNot@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

I mean, you're not wrong - but it's a technique used every day for super-resolution microscopy.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 41 points 9 months ago

I can finally tools in Krita!

[-] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

I’m surprised that open source technology isn’t used at American universities. My local university only has proprietary software which I guess makes sense because of industry standards, but the reality is learning on open source will be more beneficial in the long run.

[-] Kindness@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Most proprietary companies will give very steep discounts or even free licences to schools and universities. If you introduce an entire generation of students to your software, students will gravitate toward what they're familiar with when they enter the "real world".

[-] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not. Universities aren't places of open or free learning. They're deeply invested in capitalism and benefit greatly from intellectual property laws. In fact, most universities function largely as state subsidized pipelines that take people without a viable, real world skill set and turn them into people who still don't have a viable real world skill set, but who do have a piece of paper telling corporations that they're able and willing to put up with complete bullshit, general mistreatment, and dull, grueling labor for years without incident. Which is good enough for your typical middle-class wage slave and whatever they might want to do.

[-] SuperSynthia@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

And to think that’s what my fucking taxes are paying for. Anticompetitive lock in baked into a churn and burn the proletariat pie

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago

Why show young bright minds free options when you can get more money from them for the rest of their lives with subscription software

[-] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 30 points 9 months ago

It's unfortunate how many replys are missing the good part of this and rather respond with criticism and negativity. We can do better than that folks. This is a good thing!

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 9 months ago

That is some q u a l i t y textbook right there.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

I like seeing the Krita suggestion, but to just call it “open-source” with no clarification on that means would lead me to believe kids would skip over the hyphenated adjective without realizing it is often the key to finding other good, open-source software (e.g. a “open-source alternative to Reddit” query should lead one to Lemmy). I’m hoping it has a section or callout or even a vocab word on another page but I’m skeptical.

(This is putting aside my quarrels with OSI, FSF, SPDX for the larger picture)

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

Considering Linux have 15% marketshare in India, I'm pretty sure the curriculum already cover what open source is.

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Not sure about this particular textbook, but ours did explain what open-source is. So I'm guessing it might have been covered in a previous chapter.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

That’s really cool to hear 😀

[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

I've never heard of Krita before, and now twice in one day. Please tell me why?

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

Krita is cool software. It is in use here with artist David Revoy : https://www.davidrevoy.com/

[-] blindsight@beehaw.org 3 points 9 months ago

That's because of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

That's some good application choices right there

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yes, dear.

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I will never get over people using software as a countable noun. You mean a software program or a software application, not ~~a software~~

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

"They downvoted him because he spoke the truth."

One fish, two fish. Red fish, blue fish.

One software, two softwares. One literature, two literatures. One Lego, two Legos. One butter, two butters. One snow, two snows.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I read that in the most posh British accent possible.

Edit: IDK why the downvotes, really

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112105544866298864

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Oh hey, I had some good results with Krita when I was still making digital art way back when. It's been like a decade. I should get myself a new tablet.

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