listen i'm not saying GIMP is useless but i am saying it's a misrepresentation to act like it's a perfectly acceptable 100% replacement for Photoshop and that its interface isn't totally fuckin busted. like sorry but i have been on Computer since 1994 and it is among the worst UIs i have ever seen
people are so smug about “just drop adobe” and that’s how you know they’re not doing real work with it, adobe is able to be so miserable to people because so much adobe software is literally irreplaceable right now
yeahhhh it's the same with the "just get linux" people 🫠 like okay i'm glad it works for you but it won't for me! what if we all fought for better standards/consumer rights!!!
That's what LaTeX is for. It's the preferred submission format for a lot of academic publications. Especially if you have any complicated math formulas in it. It's a pain in the ass for any kind of sophisticated page layout, but it was never intended for that kind of use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
"you can still run windows stuff on a virtual machine" or i could use windows. and still be allowed to complain that windows sucks sometimes without people telling me the solution to my problem is a hat on a hat!!! D:<
fuck around with a windows VM?? why would you tho? could you even game on that? use graphics heavy apps like CSP (I mean maybe with resource allocation, but it all sounds like such a hassle and the point is to avoid hassle)
It's gotten a lot better over the years, and at this point can be quick easy and fully functional. As far as gaming, Valve has done a *lot* of work so that most games will now run directly in Linux
But that "can" is doing a lot of work here, and you might get unlucky and it's a giant slog
I mean, once you’re saying “switch to Linux but run Win in a VM” it’s a hell of a lot easier to stay on Windows and run the WSL for all your Linux stuff you’re trying out.
To be fair, I *did* switch to Linux and I do an awful lot of stuff with it (music stuff via FL Studio, video editing via Davinci Resolve, Steam library pretty much just works, and I familiarized myself with Krita for my art as I would not touch GIMP with a ten foot pole)
GIMP is such a hilariously bad piece of UX, ever experience I've ever had with it has been nothing but painful and confusing. I refuse to ever touch it again, *especially* since much friendlier alternatives exist.
much like GIMP it's not that Linux can't do anything it's just that it's still WAAAAAAY far away from being able to do everything lol. i use a die cutting machine to make stickers for my shop and hoo boy that is extremely not happening on Linux 🫠
Yeah I mean
I like Linux, I can *soft* recommend it in terms of "if you were already thinking about switching, go for it", but I can't really *hard* recommend it bc you gotta be ready to switch up big parts of your workflow & find weird workarounds for lack of third party software support.
I don’t recommend it to people unless they are already considering switching, and even then I just say “try it and see if it works for you”
The reality is Linux is great*
*if it fits your use-case and works with what you need it to.
It’s been absolutely getting better for more people, though
I'm in a very similar spot. See, this right here. When even us linux users hate its interface, GIMP stans can't pretend the only people who don't like it just hate all open source software or hate it for not being Photoshop.
It just sucks ass. Simple.
But honestly stuff like substance painter, or Lightroom, or photoshop are so far ahead of other tools in my experience that it’s very hard to move off them.
There are many things you can do this with but a lot of the alternatives just aren’t there yet so it’s really use case dependent.
Like resolve is an easy switch. I do not like reaper or FL and much of my audio hardware has a bunch of specialized software so Live has me stuck on windows.
