I have heard some good things about Krita, but tbh I fall into habits rather quickly, so I'll personally stick to what I've got. I've only used Adobe Illustrator+Photoshop (at school), SAI and GIMP before. I just learned that Krita layers and masks system are far, and far more powerful than Photoshop. It's not a problem for me as I'm a product designer student. It's ok for painting, but IMHO, that's the weakest part of Krita when it is slow in big canvas and at 1000px. To use Krita as a photo editor, one must learn about gmic, filter brush engine, clone brush engine, nondestructive editing of Krita, CMYK, deep color, channel modification within Krita. Krita has just about everything in GIMP and more.
I'd probably would just run Krita on wineskin if I had to use Mac. note to lostinherfantasies, if you really want you can run SAI on a Mac through the use of a wineskin, but it's a bit troublesome. If you really need something in CMYK form, you need to download another program add-on of sorts, as it natively only has RGB and Grayscale colour settings.
Well, I've only been using GIMP since June last year, and it has only 'crashed' once (due to a sudden automatic Mac download, right after I'd saved my work thankfully, thanks apple) but it does still have some problems with it e.g. It's free and can be found online (just google 'GNU Image Manipulation Program'). GIMP might be confusing at first but there are a bunch of tutorials, and instructional stuff on the website if you decide to check it out.
I think PhotoShop's layout is similar to GIMP's so if you've used PS before it might be simpler to switch to GIMP. The lineart in GIMP is a bit rougher unless you go to really high res, and unless you have a drawing tablet of some sort pen pressure can't be imitated exactly, so you might prefer SAI for lines. You could try out GIMP, I found it fairly simple to get used to after I switched from SAI.
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