I'll still use it. The title is just a joke about being called out by a boykisser meme
Being out-of-the-loop, what did Krita do?
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I imagine it's related to how some neckbards on the internet are apparently extremely salty that Krita currently has a "furry" as a mascot, created by Tyson Tan.
Why the fuck wouldn't Krita have a furry mascot? That's their entire userbase there.
I have no idea. There was some dweeb on this very instance going around spamming a Krita related thread complaining about it.
"My God, what are all these furries doing using an open source art program?"
Like, dude dove in the yiff pile headfirst and then had the audacity to act surprised.
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I googled but I can't find any kontroversy
Then use apt or yum or pacman!
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Nothing, OP's just saying things
The title is just a joke about having "boykisser krita" calling me out and and being angry at that smug face.
I ain't uninstalling it anytime soon.
No clue what your issue is, but if your standard for OSS is not being associated with furries, I've got bad news for you.
Furries keep the internet running.
Nah I'm fine with furries. Except the boykisser one (as a joke)
Updated the post with the explanation. The joke didn't land
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Is it about Krita being on steam not for free?
If Iβd use krita on regular basis Iβd be happy to support the devs. Also, the license is the same as always - itβs open source.
Why is on steam? To use it on a steam deck?
so you can pay to support them, just like how goblin tools is on the app store
From what I understand, most of Krita's development budget comes from income on Steam, with fund.krita.org being a smaller slice. Krita would effectively be in maintenance mode if they didn't have money to pay regular developers and maintainers.
You can still just get it for free on the website.
Blender has been on steam for years. As have other multimedia and game tools. For platforms like windows, it is one of the best auto update systems widely available.
Steam seems a bit of an odd place for it, but I don't really see a problem with it.
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???
I honestly don't understand people beefing with people they don't know personally. Like, sure, I'm not the biggest fan of furries, but hey, you do you, I like animals but just not like that.
Not using software because people you don't know like something you don't like????? So stupid. Be you, be proud.
(I'm speaking generally, not directly to you op, btw)
Ewww majaro
I always read it as "major no" just to remind me.
Hello, 6 month Manjaro user
Why does everyone hate Manjaro so much? It works just fine (for me at least)
Are there better organization backed easy to use arch derivatives?
https://github.com/arindas/manjarno
And that's not even up to date anymore. They let their SSL cert expire sometime in the last month. Again.
The real problem with it is that it's an attempt to maintain a "stable"ish downstream set of repos to give an arch-like experience, which is something that requires constant effort and diligence. Things the current devs do not provide.
If they can't even get automated certificate renewal set up (something that is extremely trivial to do), after years of that being a meme, what else are they not taking seriously?
And at that point, what is the appeal of Manjaro? Why not just use Arch?
Depends on your use case. Manjaro is in the unique position of having such a poor management track record, that almost any other Arch derivative (or, you know.. Arch) is preferable. They've let their SSL certificate expire for the 7th time just last week I think? I honestly haven't kept count, but it happened at least a few times. If it works for you, that's fine. I imagine most reasonable people don't really care. I personally dislike Manjaro for their poor track record managing their repositories or SSL certificates, their historically stupid approach to the AUR and the generally negative effect it had on Arch linux (tech support). Honestly I think Manjaro benefits most from its popularity in the tech influencer spheres and the fact that most of its userbase doesn't seem to question if a rolling release model actually makes sense for their use case.
I mean, it cured my addiction to pirated Cracked software (and countless hour of cleranup from virus and malware), so, yeah.
And when you have to crack a newer version (because the old can't work on your $os) it's all bloated up.
The only thing I don't like about Krita is the color picker but I'm sure you can change that so I'm just lazy.
I think I need some context, what is a boykisser meme?
Here, here!
Even with the explanation, I still donβt get it either. I have some questions:
- What is a boy kisser meme?
- What is good or bad about being called out in reference to one?
- Who was doing the calling out or being called? Was OP called out by Krita, Krita by OP, or some third party calling out one or the other? Or maybe a third party was called out by Krita?
- What does this image have to do with Krita or the other OSS projects in the background?
Feel free to assume that I am old and not hip to what kids are doing these days.
- A boykisser meme is a male furry rabbit(?) that kisses boys. It is usually paired with the caption "You like kissing boys don't you?" in a teasing tone, like this:
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This is a good thing. However, the joke relies on the sarcastic nature of "being caught" liking boys. In an attempt to clear his name, OP claims it's time to uninstall Krita.
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The "calling out" is done by the boykisser. Instead of liking boys, the meme is modified to say open-source software. Thus, the boykisser "criticises" the reader, and by extension, OP, of liking FOSS software.
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The boykisser himself doesn't usually look like this (see the first image attached). He was modified in order to resemble Krita's mascot, Kiki. Attached below is Kiki's reference sheet, from the official KDE site for the mascot.
The eyes, the makeup around them, and the ears are pulled from Kiki's design and put onto the boykisser.
If you have any lingering questions, or I misunderstood the joke, please don't hesitate to tell me.
Ah! Thank you for the detailed explanation so I can properly enjoy this joke.
sigh guess i'll have to put the mandatory "free as in freedom, not free as in free beer" over here
And still available free as in beer as well.
This is a giant bucket of nothing.
Im recompiling Krita 6 just for you π
Tooooo many arch using femboys, why not gentoo? Or is that just for cracked eggs? :3
Whats up with his ears?
It's meant to look like Krita's mascot, Kiki.
Take notice of her ears and her eyes.
KDE's official site about Kiki, from where I sourced the image.
Cute, that makes sense!
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why uninstall it? (do not answer if you are not OP)
You can't tell me what to do!
It knows who you are
Once I understood it, I found it funny. I just needed to spend ten minutes crawling the comments to learn about the meme this is a parody of.
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