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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

one time I recommended Krita to a graphic designer friend and I had to swear to her that I wasn’t trying to trick her into “trying that gimp bullshit again”

I was not in fact the one who got her to try gimp in the first place, that’s just how bad her experience with gimp was

it’s not me the FOSS special boy who’s wrong, it’s:

- the trained graphic designers who tried gimp and hated it
- wikipedia
- people who prefer “corporate fascist slop” or uhhhh checks notes, other FOSS apps like krita that give a shit about design and didn’t name their app after the rape scene in pulp fiction

“nothing we can do about our reputation for being hard to use” says the only major FOSS graphic design app with a reputation for being hard to use

Isobel Bess, the gimp guy, on bluesky: “if you find GIMP hard to use you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a car or shop at a grocery store. it's literally just buttons with pictures on them that do the things the pictures represent. you don't even need to be able to read.” he’s subposting (subskying? ultrablueing?) Chris Person, who posted: “Checked Wikipedia for the program GIMP. Feel like you don't want this in your Wikipedia article.” with a screenshot of a Wikipedia quote: “The user interface has been criticized for being ‘hard to use’. [75]”
the gimp guy Isobell Bess again: “Isobel Bess @echosequence.space when people say FOSS is "hard to use" or "unintuitive" what they often mean is that it's slightly different than the fascist corporate slop they're used to, and that slight difference makes them uncomfortable, and they'd rather wallow in slop than risk learning a new skill”