as a GIMP user of over 15 years: GIMP blows ass, use Krita

it remains annoying that actually better Linux software exists, but garbage from forever ago remains the face of the Linux desktop

>>5000
Oh, Krita works for editing? I thought it was a painting software.

A long time ago, I read a rant article over GIMP's name, which compared it to if Linux was named Penix instead.
You should also search for "Penix" it is funny

>>5000
as a wise man said
photoshop contains all the worst of proprietary software and gimp the worst parts of free software
i still dont know how to draw a circle in gimp quickly

i bought affinity photo for windows years ago and yeah it's way more usable than gimp as well
not like i'm a power user, but still...

just take better photographs

just redraw bad photos better on paper

just draw

>>5016
Okay.

Why can't Foobar be replicated on Linux?

>>5017
I wish I could draw this well..

I borrowed a drawing tablet and tried drawing tenshi on krita but it turns out I can't draw.

on another note, I can confirm a wacom tablet just works right away when you plug it in on a linux machine. pressure sensitivity and button shortcuts work as expected and there is no input latency as far as I can tell. I think I'm gonna practice a little more and see what I can do.

>>5541
What's wrong with Rythmbox?

>>5541
The better question is "Why has no one tried?"

>>5544
Not as customizable. Dumb default settings. Associated with GNOME and its "we know better than the user" philosophy.
The last time I tried it (years ago), its music library indexing was also slower and buggier than most competitors. I miss the KDE3 version of Amarok and how smoothly it synced with my Rockbox mp3 player.

>>5544
I hate the itunes look. Also came upon fooyin which seems to be at least trying to be like linux, and will report back on how it is after I've had some time to experience it.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fooyin

For now the quick setup obsidian layout looks promising.

>>5557
Already running into issues playing .cue files...

>>5557
>>5558
I guess this is also something solved via moonlight and moving all my media files onto a server instead of having them locally on the PC itself...............................

>>4997
Free (Open-Source) software will largely never catch up with proprietary equivalents, exceptions like OBS and Blender notwithstanding.
-GIMP: Historically egregiously user-unfriendly, not surprising considering who developed it. Doesn't even have feature parity with photoshop anyway.
-LibreOffice: Cant speak for the document editor, but the spreadsheet editor is very noticeably inferior to the Office suite, I have to assume that follows for the rest.
-FreeCAD: Not much to say here, I don't think I've ever seen anyone bother with CAD on linux in a large scale manner.

KDE historically blows GNOME out of the water when it comes to what is provided in its software suites. Krita, KDENLive and KDE Connect are more useful that anything put out by GNOME (or GNU that wasn't designed for the CLI) in a while now, but even KDENLive is still not as good as some proprietary editing software. Linux will probably always be like this, sometimes capitalism Just Works™