A few years ago I tried putting text on a path (think “curvy text”). First tried gimp, quit frustrated after about a hour. While at some point I “kind of” got it to work, it looked like shit. Then I opened photoshop, was done in about three minutes. Note that I never did it before in photoshop nor gimp.

Luckily, nowadays I just open photopea whenever I would have used photoshop in the past. The fact that one single guy built a better photo editor than gimp should tell you everything.

I, too, use KDE at work.

Cloudflare is just your average, often free, TLS-terminating proxy everyone uses and definitely NOT a NSA operation for being able to read and control all internet traffic.

You should definitely use it, preferably with AWS or Azure (or both!) as the underlying server.

Also, pick US-East1 so you are down when everybody else is.