Hot take of the day: we could have stopped Adobe ages ago if GIMP had any other name.
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@luxliquida @Craigp maybe Krita would be good for photo editing? I pretty much only use it for MS Paint style stuff, but that's what I was using gimp for too. Both have a lot of buttons that I haven't learned about yet
@beaiouns @luxliquida ibuse Krita for painting! I haven't tried editing photos.
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GIMP spent a decade sucking the oxygen out of open source image editing because open source advocates would say "just contribute to the porn sextime fetish sadomaso image editor" and people would say "uhhhh. I'll just keep using Photoshop, or maybe donate my coding to, uh... a mouse driver or something..."
It appears this really was the hot take of the day. Stick around for long threads on boring shit.
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Hot take of the day: we could have stopped Adobe ages ago if GIMP had any other name.
GIMP is nominative determinism applied to open source. If Fedora was named FUCKBOI, it would have failed too.
I agree they should have renamed GnuIMP a long time ago.
But counter example, did inkscape eat a meaningful percentage of illustrator's market share?
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I agree they should have renamed GnuIMP a long time ago.
But counter example, did inkscape eat a meaningful percentage of illustrator's market share?
@intrepidhero i think the existence of GIMP chilled the image editing open source environment enough that alternate projects struggled too.
By the time people gave up on it, open source was far behind and the market was consolidated.
imo.
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