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The issue is Gimp tries to look like Photoshop very hard, so people tend to compare the 2. But if we compare 2 Free popular painting software: MS Paint and Gimp

by vmarsy 10y ago

The issue is Gimp tries to look like Photoshop very hard, so people tend to compare the 2. But if we compare 2 Free popular painting software: MS Paint and Gimp, then Gimp is awesome, for non professional use I love Gimp. If I were a professional image editor I would buy Photoshop. On my windows 10 machine, I hope I'll be able to run Gimp. I don't know if the Linux Subsystem makes it possible. https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4ea4w4/fyi_you_can_run_gui_linux_apps_from_bash/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4ea4w4/fyi_you_c...

jdboyd 10y ago
On more than one Windows 10 machine, I have no problems running Gimp 2.8 build for Windows supplied straight from https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ It also works well on Windows 7. I can only assume that means it will probably work OK on the versions between 7 and 10.
- Nexxxeh 10y ago
  I've experienced weird behavior with GIMP on Windows. It mangled my clipboard usage with Teamviewer (wth?), tablet support is hit and miss, and other just plain odd behavior. That's not a complaint, I've no right to complain as I've not documented and raised the bugs.[1] I've just worked around them, which I appreciate is selfish. But it works just as well/badly on 7, 8.1u1, and 10 in my experience. And it's still my go-to image editor for anything that Irfanview can't do. [1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&classification=Other&op_sys=Windows&order=Importance&product=GIMP&query_format=advanced https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRME...
camclay 10y ago
They've had a long history of building or other users compiling versions for Windows - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ - has Windows and Mac OSX as options, as well as Linux.
newscracker 10y ago
On Windows, a better application that sits between MS Paint and GIMP in terms of features, extensibility and power is the free Paint.NET. [1] [1]: http://www.getpaint.net/ http://www.getpaint.net/

by vmarsy 10y ago

jdboyd 10y ago

On more than one Windows 10 machine, I have no problems running Gimp 2.8 build for Windows supplied straight from https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ It also works well on Windows 7. I can only assume that means it will probably work OK on the versions between 7 and 10.

Nexxxeh 10y ago
I've experienced weird behavior with GIMP on Windows. It mangled my clipboard usage with Teamviewer (wth?), tablet support is hit and miss, and other just plain odd behavior. That's not a complaint, I've no right to complain as I've not documented and raised the bugs.[1] I've just worked around them, which I appreciate is selfish. But it works just as well/badly on 7, 8.1u1, and 10 in my experience. And it's still my go-to image editor for anything that Irfanview can't do. [1]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&classification=Other&op_sys=Windows&order=Importance&product=GIMP&query_format=advanced https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRME...

camclay 10y ago

They've had a long history of building or other users compiling versions for Windows - https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ https://www.gimp.org/downloads/ - has Windows and Mac OSX as options, as well as Linux.

newscracker 10y ago

On Windows, a better application that sits between MS Paint and GIMP in terms of features, extensibility and power is the free Paint.NET. [1] [1]: http://www.getpaint.net/ http://www.getpaint.net/