Privacy Guides
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Considering I know many artists that use it as first choice, I know you're wrong.
It's good software, you just don't like it.
Well, I guess your anecdotal evidence is as good as mine, because nobody in my design circle will touch the damn thing. Meanwhile Blender is the standard for 3d designers I know.
Blender is for models, not art. It's different software. It's great at what it does. Expecting that because one open source project can beat proprietary then all can is a pretty shallow view. A project relies on volunteers, sacrifice and funding.
You're saying it's bad because no one you know uses it doesn't suggest no-one uses it, just you don't know the users of it. Maybe your circle is as open minded to software as you are. Similar people surround themselves with each other. It says more about you than the software.
You can die on this hill if you want to. Gimp has its reputation amongst the public, and it's not for it's user friendly UI. Maybe you like the jank, but that doesn't mean it's optimal.
Also, another thing open source projects need is feedback from the public. The UI being horrid is feedback, and just because you feel the need to white knight and feel personally offended by this feedback doesnt make the feedback invalid. You can complain about the phrasing used, but if you use that as reason to disregard the feedback or get defensive and accusatory towards the person (the "what have YOU done" bit was particularly irrelevant) then you're part of the problem regardless how much you feel you're the solution.
Most of the public don't know GIMP, the ones that do see the way it's communicated from the community.
You say I can die on this hill. I said 2 points in the post you responded to.
What did I say that is wrong in that comment? What did you disagree with? Are you saying Blender isn't great, or are you saying zero people use GIMP?
If you agree with both the sentiments I said, you either responded to the wrong message, or you're going out of your way to argue with me, and not the points I made.
I never disregarded the points about the UI. The UI could do with improvements. UI doesn't improve by people blasting a piece of software on the internet, it comes by giving your time to help improve it, or forking it, or donating to someone that can. If you're not doing any of those things, you're not actually helping to address the problem. It's not constructive criticism or helpful. It's just putting yourself on a sandbox as if your opinions mean more about the software than the people who take time to make it and improve it.