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Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:24:13 -0500
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On 12/28/24 12:04 PM, chrisv wrote:
> 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
>> chrisv wrote:
>>>
>>> Farley Flud wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The Photoshop lackeys are always the instigators.  They seem greatly
>>>> distressed by the fact that some folks do not worship their idol.
>>>
>>> And, golly gee, the free product isn't as good as the expensive
>>> product.  What a "tragedy".
>>
>>    LibreOffice beats the crap out of anything M$ offers
>>    these days.
> 
> I wouldn't know.  Both are more than sufficient for my lightweight
> use.  Obviously I choose to use the cheaper one.

In a manner of speaking, it doesn't really matter too much for casual 
users, for most of the productivity gain is through becoming practiced 
with the UI and its underlying workflow design philosophy.

When there's a steep learning curve present for actions beyond the most 
basic, there's going to be user-based preferences to stick to the known, 
even if it isn't theoretically ideal...and pragmatically, that 'muscle 
memory' is going to be hard to beat from a productivity/throughput 
standpoint.


> Word processing and spreadsheets are examples of highly mature
> technologies.  FOSS excels in these areas.

Hopefully, they've gotten far better:  I had a horrific experience with 
a contractor using {not-MS}office some years ago, which ended with their 
contract being terminated.  I'd have to search the archives for the 
specifics, but it was some glitching with the FOSS spreadsheet not 
charting the project's performance data correctly ... and it didn't help 
that a pair of PhD's didn't notice that the glitch resulted in their 
amplifier design having negative gain.  No, not negative feedback, but 
negative *gain*:  if that's what was what was being paid for, we would 
have simply bought an attenuator off-the-shelf.


>> GIMP is basically as good as PhotoShop.
> 
> Again, I wouldn't know.  I've assumed that PS is better, based upon
> its popularity and price.  I would expect evolving technology would
> favor the payware, when it comes to outright performance.

Which is fine, but then attempts to compare products for assessing 
things like value should therefore be deferred to those who actually 
have relevant experience with the tools in question.


-hh