This should be helpful for people that learned Photoshop in the past (for work or in school). From what I understand, a lot of the friction with GIMP is the workflow differences, and potentially unintuitive UI/UX choices.
tldr: recovering Adobe Photoshop user shows you features in the very free and very open source gnu image manipulation program :D
my relevant GIMP config files: https://github.com/BreadOnPenguins/dots/tree/master/.config/GIMP/3.0
GIMP documentation: https://www.gimp.org/docs/
GIMP apologists are what Adobe users think FOSS apologists are like. The principled refusal to even consider fundamental UX principles is astounding.
Yeah you might be right.
I should clarify I use GIMP. A lot! But this is one way it sucks. By this point I don’t know what other similar programs even have over it - it finally got adjustment layers after some decades. So if I can recognise this shortcoming anyone should be able to ;)
The other major thing was switching to single window mode. Floating windows for everything was absolutely batshit.
Good thing GIMP went single window before Wayland popularity spiked.
Was there a known issue there?
Most Wayland compositors don not have the concept of multiple windows being one application. And you cannot always control how and where they appear.
This is not a Wayland complaint. Just pointing out that old GIMP was just not very compatible with the core Design of Wayland.
Depending on what compositor you use, a lot of this has really improved.
and not for a lack of proposals either, they just languish there obstructed by certain parties