The user experience is actually BETTER running Photoshop on Windows 7 inside Virtualbox than it is running Gimp. I love open source, and use Ubuntu primarily (the Mac references above are due to using a Mac, and therefore Gimp on a Mac from time to time, at work). The development effort that could have gone in to making a decent photo editor went in to people trying to salvage the disaster that is Gimp. Deafness on the part of the GIMP community that their product is still horrible. No "Just copy the damn Photoshop keyboard shortcuts" option out of the box. (Guess what! I CAN write Python but sometimes I just want to say "oh hey I need to do this 200 more times, I'll just hit record, click the buttons I want, stop recording, and make that action Cmd-F2"). No actions that somebody who doesn't know a scripting language can write. No adjustment layers, and with that no non-destructive editing.
Not about Krita, but the steaming pile of fail that is GIMP. That's always been the major difference for me. Once I apply a curve change, I cant tell Krita, "hey remember that curve adjustment I did 14 steps ago? Instead of that one, can you do a similar adjustment except with less highs in the red channel?" In photoshop I can.
When I'm doing a photomanipulation, I'll usually have a minimum of three adjustment layers on a source image, allowing me to fine tune the look I need. It's much easier to change a slider on an adjustment layer than to undo a ton of your work because you can't return the original detail to a picture. Non destructive edits are extremely important, especially if a client asks for changes later. Many have masking capabilities, but any lighting adjustments to an image or corrections in general are destructive edits (meaning they alter the underlying pixels of the source image). My biggest issue a lot of times with "photoshop killers", is that they rarely tackle non-destructive editing (I believe gimp is included on this, but I haven't touched it for about a year now).
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