I’m excited because I’ve found vector tools for Linux to be really lackluster so far, and end up reaching for Affinity via Wine, and that clunk, for vector work.

Inkscape I know is a darling thing but like, actually using it? It’s an SVG editor at core, and that’s fundamentally different from “vector editing”, because “vector” is a concept, and “SVG” is a rigidly-defined format. In other words, if it’d be a valid vector operation but not supported by SVG, you (often) can’t do it in Inkscape. It also bounds objects with a manipulator that doesn’t follow the object shape/position, but instead the SVG bounding box for that object. So if you have a long box shape and rotate it diagonally, your bounding box is defined by the most distant X/Y coordinates that would fully surround it in a horizontal/vertical box, instead of being the object itself like all other vector editors do. And that shows something I can’t simply fix with a feature request because it’s part of the fundamental design of Inkscape – that’s way bigger than a feature request.