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David Revoy
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David Revoy's personal blog at davidrevoy.com covers design and culture. Since 2012, 57 different Hacker News readers have linked it 82 times, most often “Kubuntu Linux 20.04 for digital painting workstation: Reasons and Install guide”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Revoy's blog for Krita tutorials and open-source art workflows, plus his Pepper & Carrot comic and portfolio. Commenters often cite it as an example of open-source art work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.
Most-linked posts?
- Kubuntu Linux 20.04 for digital painting workstation: Reasons and Install guide5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
- Dream Cats NFT: don't buy them3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-09-22
- Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 20243 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-30
- Interim Install Guide: KDE Neon for a professional digital painter workstation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-22
- How to customise a USB numeric keypad under GNU/Linux?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-09-01
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-16
- How Proprietary Social-Media Is Shaping the Future of Pepper and Carrot2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
- A Critique of Cara.app: The 'No AI' Instagram and Artstation Copycat Child2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-03
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-23
What Hacker News says?
Disclainer: KDE dev so take my opinion with a pinch of salt :p The decision by the Ubuntu Studio variants was made by the Ubuntu Studio developers and not by Canonical. The developers are also maintaining Fedora Jam with KDE installed by default too. Unfortunately all the big commercial distros are using GNOME as default DE because RedHat is providing the commercial support for GNOME already and it's easier for them…
Comment linking /article783/kubuntu-linux-20-04-for-a-digital-painting-workstation-reasons-and-install-guide
on “GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked”Submitted Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024 as a story · 306 points
HN discussionLOL, man, you made my day! Thank you! (ps. There's a new episode of Mini Fantasy Theater I haven't seen yet, hurray! https://www.davidrevoy.com/tag/minifantasytheater )
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on “Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]”Submitted Review: Purism Librem13 laptop as a story · 203 points
HN discussionYeah, Krita has themes/skins, here is a few: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article124/themes-for-krita-and-kd... The top one seems darker. Otherwise you can always edit the `.colors` file of your choosing to be even darker.
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on “Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists”Submitted Kubuntu Linux 19.10 for a digital painting workstation as a story · 138 points
HN discussionGetting a presentation from http://davidrevoy.com/ sounds like a motivating way to start using the program :-)
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on “‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8”Submitted The end of Pepper&Carrot and my next project as a story · 112 points
HN discussionThe sources (krita files) and hi res jpeg files will soon be published online here https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static6/sources&page=other All those illustrations are CC-By David Revoy : https://www.davidrevoy.com/article800/mobilizon
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on “Mobilizon – A free, federated tool for events and groups”Submitted Mozilla right now (Digital Painting) as a story · 49 points
HN discussionI'm not an artist myself but I follow David Revoy, who [0] uses Krita and other open-source software extensively for his Pepper & Carrot comic [1]. His blog [0] is full of posts about how he does his work using open-source tools. There are plenty of fantastic artists who use Krita but I find him interesting because of how dedicated he is to using open-source software for all his work. [0]: https://www.davidrevoy.com…
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on “First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store”Submitted License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThere is a list of supported tablets on the Krita website. I think Wacom and Huion are the most popular. Wacom is mainstream and well supported but more expensive. https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/list_supported_ta... Also check out David Revoy. He has a great deal of tutorials using Krita. https://www.davidrevoy.com/categorie3/tutorials-brushes-extr... In terms of displays, I just use a high quality IPS m…
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on “Krita 4.3.0”Submitted New Comic Book: La BD de L'Avent, Le Lombard Publishing as a story · 34 points
HN discussionAlso, check out Krita; it looks a lot like photoshop to me, but the last time I used photoshop was 7 years ago. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dBDHsjsOG4w/U1e8ubOrBTI/A... There is a guy, David Revoy, that uses only free software to do it's job, and it seems successful at it. http://davidrevoy.com/
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on “Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work”Submitted CMYK in Inkscape could be a game-changer for professional print designers as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThere's one artist that uses FLOSS to draw and make a living out of it, David Revoy. He's using Krita as his main painting tool, but: "Gcolor2 is a colorpicker, Inkscape my favorite vector editor, Gimp for manipulating images and Shutter for taking advanced screenshots." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article316/ubuntu-16-04-for-my-di... I don't see why we shouldn't support the development of both programs. I personally…
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on “GIMP developer looking for funding”Submitted Dream Cats NFT: don't buy them as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe best long term solution to overbearing copyright is to create more content with permissive licenses. E.g. David Revoy creates art using open source software: https://www.davidrevoy.com/ Just as Microsoft and Apple would no doubt have even more locked down OSes if there wasn’t a fallback of Linux, so the more competition for people’s attention that is not controlled by large corporations, the less bargaining and…
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on “Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ from DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results”Submitted Debian 12 KDE Plasma: The right distribution for professional digital painting as a story · 12 points
HN discussionDavid Revoy doesn't recommend Fedora 40 for digital artists any more. The main reasons are regressions in tablet software with Plasma 6, and Krita not being a Wayland app. [1] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1030/debian-12-kde-plasma-...
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on “25 Years of Krita”Submitted Making a big high quality comic book using only FLOSS from scratch as a story · 11 points
HN discussionKrita (www.krita.org) is also very great piece of software recently, sometimes called "best-kept secrets among Linux applications". See this blog-post from professional illustrator http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?article98/krita-2-4-beta...
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on “Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more”Submitted Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAnd even if you were you could manage to earn a living without using Adobe stuff. Ask David Revoy, for example. https://www.davidrevoy.com/static2/about-me
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on “Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable”Submitted A DIY digital stethoscope for cats as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBlockchain does not ensure provenance. [0] As a reseller, publishing your PGP signatures on a git repository provides the same level of authenticity: you can't prove where it came from, and you can't silently erase past transactions to the eyes of people who have a copy of the chain/repo. [0] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article864/dream-cats-nfts-don-t-...
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on “An NFT without a blockchain”Submitted Configuring the XpPen ACK05 Remote with Only Floss on GNU/Linux: My Investigati as a story · 7 points
HN discussionNice to see G'MIC's smart colorize algorithm making its way into core GIMP. The research team worked with David Revoy, the character designer of several Blender open movies (such as Sintel or Spring), so I've heard a lot about it from him. He's written a few blog posts (e.g. [1]) and videos on how to use the Krita and GIMP implementations of the feature. [1] https://www.davidrevoy.com/article324/smart-coloring-previ…
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on “Gimp 2.10.10 released”Submitted Tutorial: A Comic strip from A to Z with Krita as a story · 5 points
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