> GIMP is great for editing photos, but a poor choice for creating bitmap (non vector) graphics. It's a big hassle even just to draw a straight line in GIMP. MS

> GIMP is great for editing photos, but a poor choice for creating bitmap (non vector) graphics. It's a big hassle even just to draw a straight line in GIMP. MS Paint is the reverse - easy for graphics, ill-suited for photos. What? Photos are bitmap graphics and Gimp has nothing to do with vector graphics. You're really confusing a lot. To draw a straight line in Gimp you just hold shift.