I've been a pretty heavy GIMP user for the last 10 years or so, and I love it. Or loved it. A few years ago, they decided to drastically change the UI without

I've been a pretty heavy GIMP user for the last 10 years or so, and I love it. Or loved it. A few years ago, they decided to drastically change the UI without any apparent way of changing it back (2.6 vs 2.4 -- the way the windows are layed out has changed). I think this was probably done to make it easier for people to transition from photoshop to GIMP, but what the gimp people are neglecting is that there are lots of people, like me, who grew up using GIMP. I've probably put about an hour of photoshop time in in my entire life, all of it happening while I'm sitting at the photo shop waiting in line to talk to a tech (they have a huge wacom tablet there to play with as a demo). Same goes for inkscape, same goes for scribus. I think what's important to understand is that the OSS solutions aren't just for people transitioning away from adobe. There are a lot of us who have been using them all along. When the maintainers make changes to these things to make it easier for new users, they're also making it harder for us. Which sucks.