That's surprising in some ways and very unsurprising in others. Gimp is primarily a raster graphics tool (pixels), where inkscape is vector graphics (lines and

That's surprising in some ways and very unsurprising in others. Gimp is primarily a raster graphics tool (pixels), where inkscape is vector graphics (lines and points). If you've been using gimp to do flat graphicy design stuff with its pathing tool suite, it's unsurprising that you found inkscape a better fit. What is surprising, is that gimp is a ridiculously simple program, and inkscape is slightly notorious for having a questionably intuitive interface, and vectors are also less intuitive than raster. What were your use cases?