I really don't understand why you're so damn salty, I did not claim that "it is just as good" at all, did you even read? I just told you to stop listening to those that tell you that without knowing what you do. And why do you keep insisting that every developer of free software is out there to show off their higher performance solutions, when it very clearly isn't their only goal (and in this case I never heard anyone bragging that GIMP is so stupidly fast that it completely outclasses Photoshop), most times it's actually an afterthought, to go back and improve the performance because after making something you realize with your own and the users' testing, that some processes take too long.