I was with you all the way, til you said: >Gimp is still great... It's not. It's fucking shite. Just because it's free people seem to have this 'Emperor's

I was with you all the way, til you said: >Gimp is still great... It's not. It's fucking shite. Just because it's free people seem to have this 'Emperor's New Clothes' mentality about it, where they have to convince themselves it's a worthy piece of software. It's not. It's awful and perpetuates the stereotype that free / OSS / Linux apps have to be inferior, clunky and unintuitive. Applications like Krita, on the other hand, show that you can actually have free Linux software that can be as good [and as good looking] as the commercial 'pro' offerings. I still wish they'd lose the hideous cutesy Manga splash screen imagery though [Similar is also used by Ibis Paint on Android [0]] as, for me anyway, it really undermines the "professional design software" message. [0] https://ibispaint.com/?lang=en-US https://ibispaint.com/?lang=en-US