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GIMP I've used for years and years, never heard of photopea, was the comment a SPAM Ad spot?
Photopea is almost more well known than gimp these days.
My sister has used Photopea. She's as far from a sophisticated computer user as you can get. Regular people can stumble across Photopea, they certainly don't know about GIMP.
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people…
> GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, Which failed promises are you referring to specifically?
GIMP is missing such basic, basic features and things, that I genuinely wonder what's going on with the development or how anyone uses it for anything other than basic editing. It's nice that it's free and open though I guess.
Which basic features are missing?
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people…
Gimp is forever a major part of free software history and deserves total respect for that.
Everyone is free to use it today, or just get some of the better implemented alternatives... that's the beauty of open source.
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people…
> GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, Which failed promises are you referring to specifically?
Spent a couple years recompiling X11 and tons of debugging of Linux issues.
And that’s how I launched my career in developer / sysadmin.
20 years later in a “wait. What happened to my original career idea?” Moment, I finally took some art classes at a local college.
I remember I was in college and excited when I heard about GIMP. I had been running Linux for a year and wanted a photo editor but GIMP was written for the Motif GUI toolkit which was shipped with commercial Unix systems (Sun, HP, DEC, SGI, IBM) but on Linux it cost extra.
One of our campus sysadmins had the Linux Motif libraries and compiled GIMP and distributed static binaries to us.
There was an effort by "The Hungry Programmers" to develop LessTif as an open source Motif clone. You can see a reference to it in these old GIMP site from November 1995.
Motif 1.2 or above is required. (Ack! This restriction will be removed when LessTif becomes usable).
https://www.cc.gatech.edu/data_files/public/doc/gimp/index.h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LessTif
The developers got frustrated with Motif and decided to write their own GUI X Window toolkit which became GTK (GIMP Tool Kit)
While I like and use GIMP quite often I think GTK has become more influential and important than GIMP.
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people…
I get why people take issue with GIMP, but I'm glad that it exists and has existed. Back in the day I got a lot done with GIMP for both fun and school work, and it was great that it worked both on Windows and Linux. Better tools are around now, and GIMP has failed to live up to a lot of its promises, but I don't get why people need to shit all over it. No one is making you use GIMP. It's honestly amazing that people…
What frustrates me is that it somehow sucks all the oxygen away from e.g. Krita, which is better in all the ways that matter. And frankly most of the whole Gtk/Gnome umbrella is like that. I don't know if it's just americans not wanting to touch a European project or what, but it's just infuriating.