Ever tried Krita? Maaaaaan, it's almost as good as Photoshop. Damnit, their stylus/bamboo-pad support is out of this world and, in fact, objectively better than Photoshop's. That being said: typography is its Achilles heel. It's absolute shit at messing with fonts and related effects. You can just use Inkscape for that. Otherwise, it's damn-near perfect: https://krita.org/en/
At one point krita was fine... And then I realized it started to blow, like big time
Yeah I think it's the fact that setting it up for pixel art turns out to be a major pain in the ass, like I want a pencil that makes 1px opaque squares, and nope, that seems to be a challenge right away, I can only get a 1px large brush, semi opaque....
That and load time, I think, that's why I dropped the ball with krita, the bazillion of krita icons ending up in the task manager for whatever reason didn't help krita's case
But yeah, that aside, krita looks much closer to the real deal, especially when it comes to layers and brushes (except for the pixelart case, oddly krita doesn't seem designed for that particular stuff)
Yeah, that's right. Because Krita was never designed for pixel art. But you know what I use for pixel art? Fucking Inkscape, maaaaaaan. That shit's tight. You can make some sexy-ass pixel art using Inkscape: https://pic8.co/sh/55bMPw.png
Inkscape is for vectors... I mean, why not... BUT, that's like using blender for pixel art. Sure you can and there's a point, as in animations, a spaceship top down view for instance. You export it as png images in 32x32 resolution, no anti aliasing, orthogonal camera/projection... https://www.spriters-resource.com/resources/sheets/24/26756.png But then you'll likely still need to rework it at pixel level, hence, the need for a proper bitmap editing tool
It's really a shame that you can't select multiple layers at once with gimp, and move them for instance, you end up having to circumvent that, evidently, by doing dumb stuffs
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