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Doesn't make it to Linux, either.
I'd be happy to use Linux full time, once there's a port of the actual Photoshop and a powerful Excel clone available.
Gimp and LibreCalc work for casual stuff, but sorely lack when it comes to more advanced features.
People downvoting you but Linux seriously lacks contenders to those apps (especially if you’re a power user). I’ve used Gimp alongside Photoshop for the past decade and while Gimp excels in a few areas (color to alpha is crazy useful) it’s so poorly designed, it blows my mind. Alpha channel still disabled by default on a layer!?
I use a KVM to switch between Linux, macOS, and Windows every day and it pains me I still can’t switch to Linux full time unless I give up on a tools like Photoshop (Excel however is fast being replaced by Pandas / Polars).
I’m holding out hope that a byproduct of Valve and Codeweaver’s efforts with Proton might mean Photoshop will one day run perfectly on Linux. I hate Adobe but Photoshop doesn’t have a serious contender (and given how asinine the .psd format is, we’ll never see a decent tool support its file format fully either).
Gimp 3.0 coming out in May, we'll see if they've improved
I doubt GIMP ever will; the surprisingly small cadre of developers have basically come out and said "shitty UX is our religion."