Then I think you are the outlier. Most people who use GIMP for the first do so from the position of already having a (potentially non-legally obtained) copy of

Then I think you are the outlier. Most people who use GIMP for the first do so from the position of already having a (potentially non-legally obtained) copy of Photoshop. They are trying the software out and stuff like this quickly turns them off the idea of using it. If I had to guess, you use Linux and so don't have the option of Photoshop. This seems to be the case for most GIMP users.