Churbleyimyam

joined 1 year ago
[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I use a few apps intended for KDE on my GNOME system and its clear that there's a different design philosophy with them. In general I need to have things be very visually uncluttered, so I think it's just as well that I landed on a distro with GNOME. I have found that the KDE apps that I do use tend to have more functionality/tweakability though. For me it's a balancing act and I love that Linux gives me these options. Something I also love is having learnt to do things in the terminal. Being able to use a bash alias or keybinding to launch a script or an app in exactly the way I want feels super tidy.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Me too. I'm also grateful I still accept cash.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've only ever used GNOME. What am I missing?

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

Peertube is ace

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 32 points 4 months ago

Thanks for reminding me to check my emails.

Also Thunderbird is great. Big thanks to the developers.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If anything Linux should get subsidies for keeping e-waste out of landfills

Great idea.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

but GIMP simply isn’t aimed at the same type of work Photoshop and AF Photo are

Look at the home page of GIMP's website, where it says "Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done." If it's not aimed at the same things photoshop and affinity are then what is it aimed at? Music production? Video editing?

GIMP feels much more of a hobbyist tool to quickly make a simple edit and that’s done.

Why then are there so many transformation tools and filters and channel, selection and vector operations, icc profile management, scripting, etc etc etc? Just because you haven't learnt how to do something in GIMP doesn't mean it can't be done.

And like the other comment said, it has no non-destructive editing at all

This point has been valid for a long time unfortunately, however GIMP does now have non-destructive editing. You can check it out in their development version.

I know you and me are not going to agree on this but I think it's important to update and debunk misinformed statements, for the benefit of others.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yes, bring on 3.0! I checked out the development release and layer effects are working well. Happy days for us :)

Apparently there are some major colour upgrades coming in 3.0 too, so good news for printing.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah maybe. I would expect PureOS to come with less non-free components though, being that it's endorsed by the FSF. I was quite surprised that BT was not working after switching to Debian.

[–] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

For most use cases of Photoshop, GIMP is not an alternative at all.

Have you used GIMP seriously? And I don't mean installing it, getting confused because the menu layout is different to Photoshop and giving up in disgust after 10 mins.

I will readily admit that Photoshop is currently more capable and faster in some cases but to say GIMP is not an alternative is ridiculous.

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