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okay

go after such a project. a lot of the bigger ones can very much use designers, and are sometimes actively looking for contributors. this type of manpower is rare to see in the foss world.

onboarding is sadly not that good most of the time.

malicious compliance, folks.

let the ai ruin their codebase, get paid to fix it again.

thats more a lack of people to do the things we need to be done problem, than some secret formula of how to make good UX.

LLMs won’t help here, we need an attitude shift away from excusing GIMP just because its FOSS, and the money/manpower to execute it.

if the good folks at Blender did it, we can do it too if we really wanted to.

thats a golden opportunity for some sweet malicious compliance.

let ai fuck their codebase then get paid for the long time you’d need to fix it. punish their money for being dumb, and do it by giving them exactly what they want.

their only ally is a country that plays both sides (and would most likely side with china if pressed)

this is hilarious.

i used to literally use it for work. its not just my own opinion, and its slightly supported.

of course the landscape could have changed in the meantime, but that was the consensus among professionals at the time. you couldn’t send your delivery with anything other than a .psd, and gimp must have that success if we are to use it in lieau of other foss tools like krita at least.

i want things to be better in that respect and i know gimp has the potential to disrupt the crappy status quo if it had a better ui.

say what you will about adobe and you might be right, but photoshop was perfected over years for an efficient pro workflow, and the industry coalesced around how similar software works.

to the point GIMP is not an effective tool. I would excuse them for trying to make it actually “intuitive”, but as it stands, its neither “industry standard”, nor “good for everyone”.

this is my point. wanna come up with something better? please do, but its not close.

no, we want the tried and tested workflow that works well for pros to use.

take it as someone who used photoshop professionally in the past.

just curious: why do you like doing it?

yes, actually. but i want to see gimp succeed as a professional tool.

🏴‍☠️ you don’t need to pay, and you get the game anyway.

easiest boycott ever.

exactly. we could very well work less hours with the same pay. we wouldnt be as depressed and angry as we are right now.

we just have to overthrow, what, like 2000 people in a given country?

they are building nvk. it seems, in typical fashion for them, they are letting the community do it. we are already using the open kernel driver and it works well, and the community is also working on reimplementing it properly.

seems like things will indeed fall into place in a not too distant time.

i’m also not having issues beyond the stutter just yet. in any case, looking forward to get my radeon back from the repair shop.

eh, its not that bad nowadays if you arent doing anything fancy. could be better, could be worse.

ill still favor AMD on linux, but nvidia users can use linux now without that much friction. exception is maybe optimus laptops.

my only issue nowadays is stuttering on wayland.

installing it is actually pretty straightforward on ubuntu.

i dont use sms a lot, so i dont have a good rec here. i just need one that can block the spam, and any will do for me.

you can start by replacing the apps you already use. don’t need to overwhelm yourself and do it all at once.

replacing chrome for firefox is a good place to start. or using aurora and fdroid instead of google play. or heliboard instead of google board. start small.

it will depend on what you are using and how. some things are hard to replace, some has multiple better alternatives.

“the eu is becoming a bastion of privacy”

yeah my ass

yeah, it sounded like so.