That’s why I’ve been using paint.net for years. Does a lot of the things that illustrator and Photoshop do but a much lighter weight software.
Doesn’t steal all your information.
Doesn’t run adobe update in the background eating up all your ram.
Run natively on your computer.
Open source and free.
Value for value donation based.
https://www.getpaint.net/
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