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Well, if you can't make a circle in GIMP, then you have quite a lot to learn. I just asked my kid who's 7, and she easily makes a circle. She would like to show me all the shapes she makes in a minute or two... When I asked her, she made a square, rectangle, triangle, drop, circle, star, lightning, oval, cros and a few more, where she named them all... She had fun doing it, so thanks for that... But please, go practice. BTW I like Krita too - I just don't feel the need to blame any tool for being different from another. :-)
Can I ask you... how often do you really draw a circle, for this to be an issue?
Here's a little guide. My daughter uses the selection tool, to make a lot of shapes... ;-)
https://thegimptutorials.com/how-to-draw-circle/
The first two sets of instructions are for drawing a disc, rather than a circle (a disc being a filled-in circle) and don't extend to drawing a circle easily. The last method does, but it is about 10x as long. The traditional method for drawing a circle was to select the inner circle, save the selection to a channel, grow the selection by the pixel width of the stroke you want, subtract the saved selection, then fill. Wonderful /s
GIMP does not (unless I missed it in a ~recent update) have a shape tool like most image editors. The GIMP documentation in any case suggests using Inkscape for the purpose.
I'm sorry to hear, that it's that difficult for you to draw a circle. It takes me about 15 seconds to make the perfect circle I want. To me, that is simply the time it takes to make it perfect. If I just want a circle, I can do that much quicker...
So how many times a day do you need to make a circle? When I use Affinity, Inkscape, Krita, GIMP, I don't very often draw a circle. Most of the time, I do it in Inkscape, because it's great to make shapes, but there's a wast difference between a program to make vector graphics, and to make and edit bitmap pictures.
Are you really going to get defensively patronising over this? I think I'mma bounce, lol.
When you are going to be stupid about it, yeah... It's not that hard, and you simply can't accept it. You want it easier, well, good for you, you can do that...