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PhotoTux

A GPU-accelerated image editor built for Linux and Wayland.

Photo editing & image generation
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  1. Launches PhotoTux launched on Product Hunt

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  • Top 5% of Photo editing & image generation products by launches Launches tracked: #94 of 3,719

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About the startup

PhotoTux is a desktop image editor for Linux and Wayland. Made with Rust and Qt 6. It's a zero-copy wgpu/Vulkan canvas, and a Photoshop-shaped workspace drawn in the idiom of KDE Plasma 6.

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