winapps VS PhotoGIMP

You might be interested in winapps - it uses a Windows VM in the background (via KVM) but displays your Windows apps seamlessly using RDP, so it looks like they're running on your Linux desktop. The best part is that it integrates with the shell and creates file associations, so you could use your DE's application menu/launcher to open the Windows app, or open say a Word document via Nautilus and have it open up in Word.

BTW if you're on Arch or Manjaro you might want to use this fork instead.

I used to use PhotoShop heavily and still have a lot of the UI muscle-memorized. I switched to GIMP + https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP and found it mostly fits my needs for basic image editing.

There's also photoGimp:

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

But it's interesting if we can get FOSS Gui toolkits that allow for different approaches to menu/toolbar/discovery where the user can easily adjust and select how things should work - like readline Emacs/vi selection on steroids for Gui.

There is this project that might help you:

https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

I doubt it, code needs to be maintained , even if you will get stuck on old libraries you could miss out on features and improvement, of course if the changes are small and it's more like a patchset (something like photogimp) , that might be more feasible.

I don't like gimp at all, but you can still try PhotoGimp.

did you try PhotoGIMP?

See https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP/graphs/code-frequency