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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:10:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:53:34 -0400, Joel wrote:

> I'd use [Photoshop] if I had that kind of money to spend every year, and
> wanted to run Winblows.  ...
> But more efficient to use paint.net or WinGIMP, or the native GIMP
> for Linux as I do now.

GIMP has native support for deep pixels (16/32 bits per component and 
floating-point), like in EXR files. Photoshop still has to struggle with 
that through import/export and downsampling steps.