Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux

space_iio@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Novocirab@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People with your attitude are a significant reason why people decide against Linux. It’s doing Microsoft a service.

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  • space_iio@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.

    Consumers don’t make software, developers do.

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    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, are you a developer?

      I am. I have written software, both open source and commercial, for almost twenty years now and the most important lesson I have learned in that time is that developers alone don’t write good software. You need to listen to UI/UX experts, testers and user feedback to make something that people actually want to use.

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    • samwise_gamgee@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Developers don’t have to be so arrogant. In fact stuff like this pushes other developers away too.

      Not to mention from what I’ve heard GIMP just doesn’t compare to the paid options for professional work.

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    • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it’s at today.

      Not true. There are tons of nice developers out there.

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember, boys and girls, Steam bringing its monopoly to Linux is a victory, but wanting literally any other closed source software is “pathetic”.

  Yet another reminder that the worst thing about Linux is its users.

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• dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried again and again to do the things I need to do with gimp but it still lacks many features zthe ones it does have are hard to use. Sometimes it’s not about ideology but about needing to get shit done.

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  • IceFoxX@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tried Gimp 3.0?

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    • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just for maybe an hour or so, haven’t had time for more. It seems a bit better but still too different from everything else to assume people can „just“ use it instead of the solution they are familiar with.

      Gimp really needs the kind of in-depth UI/UX redesign that blender got with 2.8.

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      • mtchristo@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t try to do client work bound to a deadline on gimp. Because the stress will make you close gimp at the simplest inconvenience. That’s what happened to me. But trying to work with it on my free time. And installing the photogimp addon helped alot. Gimp still has a long way to go.

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      • IceFoxX@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I had only read that there were changes under the hood and also in the UI/UX. I hadn’t tested it yet and thought I’d just ask. It could have been that you had also only used the older versions and now there might have been changes.

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• Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know, downcasting and/or insulting people just because they don’t live up to your personal standards is a pretty shitty thing to do.

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  • renard_roux@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.

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• Prandom_returns@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gimp is a pile of garbage, please don’t recommend people use it.

  It needs a full rewrite (preferably by others) for it to function like a modern digital image editor.

  The name is just a nugget on the shitpile.

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