I listen to video game soundtracks from the 80s and 90s, and most of it is japanese from the pc98/pc88 and x68000. There is no streaming service with this. I have a collection of about 5000 soundtracks that I change out from time to time on my mp3 player which I paid about $30-40USD for and I wear conventional headphones. I have a pair of redundant backups for my collection which is about 150gb. No need for any music streaming. If anyone is curious and wants to hear it- my favorite soundtrack right now is called “X-na” on the x68000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvM2IcXai4

It’s more powerfull to tell them you won’t even use their crap if it is free. This is why FOSS feels good. I sleep well at night.

Gimp

agree 100% on gimp. It took me about a year to get used to it and now I have a free license for photoshop at work, but I still prefer gimp 2.8 on my work computer with windows. At home I use Gimp on linux all day nearly every day and do texture editing for games all of the time. Very productive tool.

And this is fine, because you’re using your cash to “screw the system” which I hold utmost respect for.