Admit it

lel.

I remember when they fucked up the copy/paste functionality for no goddamn reason. That was when I finally decided to bother pirating photoshop.
Fucking around with brush settings in gimp is retarded as well, among many other things. Gimp has always managed to feel like abandoned software.

And here back in reality-land, nobody is doing that and no one wants to be a gimp user. People do not want to USE a program, what they want is the functionality it promises. A promise of infinite functionality is worthless if you demand that everyone become a fucking programmer. That's an ass backwards and user-hostile mentality.

Yeah, Krita is pretty comfy. Hardly perfect, but they are actually trying and improving things. It is flat out not suitable for image manipulation right now, though if you are desperate and you can get some basic stuff done.

Adobe is a plague on this earth that everyone wants to see erased, but their software is just too good compared to alternatives. They even have stuff that there's basically no viable alternative to, such as InDesign and After Effects. Inkscape doesn't even come close to illustrator.

Some photoshop alternatives have a few little features that photoshop doesn't have, but everything else including the general workflow and performance is just better in photoshop.

I'm still waiting for the day when free software devs pick up the pace and start making really good software for media production. Krita is a good step forward, but there's a lot of polishing and fixing to be done that don't seem to be happening any time soon.

This is a strawman argument. I am not arguing for users to increase their skills of IT and computer programming to the level required to tinker with any software. I am arguing that users take responsibility over the software they rely on (that is installed on their own computer). You are conflating the technical aptitude of a computer user together with the responsibility of a user who maintains a sense of responsibility. Users do not need any technical aptitude in order to tinker and develop software. A user who requires technical help ought to be responsible enough to go find a skilled helper for help.

Experienced GIMP users find GIMP much easier to work with than that nasty proprietary software. By the way, where's the version of this says GNU+Linux?

It amazing to see how retarded all these faggot who never used inkscape to draw vectors professionally thinks illustrator are better than inkscape. Not only illustrator are fucking bloated, it's nothing but garbage that were garnished with overrated redundant trash that no one cares about. Whoever the developers are, they never understand what simplicity really means. Might else just make another photoshop clone and just slap it with the brand name "adobe illustrator™" on it.

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well too bad for GIMP that most artists arent programmers and arent willing to learn the convoluted interface

If I admit it, will you stop making threads?

Gimp devs purposefully fuck their own software over because they don't want to be seen as a FOSS photoshop clone. Don't have screenshot but I remember a thread asking why can't you lock layers in gimp and the response by one of the devs was basically "we're not photoshop, we're gimp". Photoshop is just fucking perfection. Adobe sucks ass but gimp feels like trying to move grains of sand with boxing gloves on.