I’ll still use it. The title is just a joke about being called out by a boykisser meme

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
      14·
      17 hours ago

      Here, here!

      Even with the explanation, I still don’t get it either. I have some questions:

      1. What is a boy kisser meme?
      2. What is good or bad about being called out in reference to one?
      3. 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?
      4. 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.

      • clubb@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        12 hours ago
        1. 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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        1. 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.

        2. 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.

        3. 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.

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        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.

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca
    15·
    22 hours ago

    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)

  • luciferofastora@feddit.org
    3·
    16 hours ago

    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.

  • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • RustyNova@lemmy.worldOP
      23·
      1 day ago

      Nah I’m fine with furries. Except the boykisser one (as a joke)

      Updated the post with the explanation. The joke didn’t land

      • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 day ago

        I wasn’t sure if it was a joke and I read another comment here that seemed to indicate that it was not. Thanks for clearing that up, unfortunately sarcasm is easily lost across the internet.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          18·
          1 day ago

          This is a good Christian household! The bible said no to boy kissing. But it said nothing bad about dressing up as a fox and fucking your partner who’s dressed as a cow.

        • RustyNova@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          23 hours ago

          Nah it’s not furries. It is just the boykisser meme that is often made to call out a person that may or may not be in the closet and mock them. It mostly conveys itself as rage bait / just being annoying.

          So if the krita mascot starts saying stuff like that, that’s a valid reason to not continue using the software.

          I do like the boykisser meme, but I’m just playing into the joke

  • custard_swollower@lemmy.world
    54·
    1 day ago

    Is it about Krita being on steam not for free?

    If I’d use krita on regular basis I’d be happy to support the devs. Also, the license is the same as always - it’s open source.

        • mrmaplebar@fedia.io
          18·
          1 day ago

          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.

      • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
        38·
        1 day ago

        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.

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        Steam seems a bit of an odd place for it, but I don’t really see a problem with it.

  • #Km91#@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    1 day ago

    I mean, it cured my addiction to pirated Cracked software (and countless hour of cleranup from virus and malware), so, yeah.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      15 hours ago

      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.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 day ago

    sigh guess i’ll have to put the mandatory “free as in freedom, not free as in free beer” over here

    • Linearity@piefed.zipEnglish
      93·
      1 day ago

      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?

      • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        It’s been a few years so it may not be the same nowadays, but when I used Manjaro for a bit it was always just a matter of time before an update broke everything. Probably had something to do with chaotic-aur. It was great otherwise, though. I wouldn’t let it get to you.

        Now I use a Fedora Atomic distro, which is like… the opposite of risky upgrades.

      • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        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?

      • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 day ago

        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.

      • NathanUp@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        They’ve had a few embarrassing slip-ups that are largely irrelevant to users of the distro. I used it for years and my partner still uses it. It’s a perfectly fine distro.