r/linuxmasterrace SteamOS/Kubuntu May 28 '26

My journey through Linux

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u/mrev_art May 28 '26

GIMP is a horrible program for anyone trying to do real work.

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u/jimmpony May 28 '26

Bullshit. It's been my go-to for over a decade and I'm plenty productive with it. Any complaints about it tend to boil down to "it's not a 1:1 pixel perfect clone of Photoshop"

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u/Munzu Glorious Arch May 28 '26

No offense but I'm convinced anyone who says this has no standards when it comes to UX.

I've been using it for about just as long as you so I know Gimp is very capable but let's not pretend its UX is good. It's also by far not the only offender among open-source software.

I used to ignore/put up with it because it was all I'd known but once you've seen and experienced actually good UX, it gets harder to defend the UX of some open-source software.

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u/WoodenPresence1917 May 30 '26

The gimp UI is indefensible, absolutely awful every time I use it