A fun theory, but I think the Occam/Hanlon in me thinks the Gimp developers have the same ego that inhabits many open source/linux adjacent communities.
It’s the kind of ego that says the user has to conform to the program, not the other way around. The program is right and correct, and its the user that is wrong. When I sought help on how to use Gimp, I got the same toxic responses that I got from the Ubuntu forums - they weren’t interested in helping, they wanted to know why I didn’t RTFM. Maybe it’s changed since all those years ago, but when I tried Gimp 3 I was immediately reminded of CS4 and dropped it like a hot rock.
I thought CS4 specifically was quite good. But I’m a casual when it comes to image editing. I just use gimp now and it works… but it never impresses me.
A fun theory, but I think the Occam/Hanlon in me thinks the Gimp developers have the same ego that inhabits many open source/linux adjacent communities.
It’s the kind of ego that says the user has to conform to the program, not the other way around. The program is right and correct, and its the user that is wrong. When I sought help on how to use Gimp, I got the same toxic responses that I got from the Ubuntu forums - they weren’t interested in helping, they wanted to know why I didn’t RTFM. Maybe it’s changed since all those years ago, but when I tried Gimp 3 I was immediately reminded of CS4 and dropped it like a hot rock.
I thought CS4 specifically was quite good. But I’m a casual when it comes to image editing. I just use gimp now and it works… but it never impresses me.