Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On 3/28/24 4:22 PM, Joel wrote:

chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

-hh wrote:
>

So much for fanboy innuendo that these independent developers are better
because they don't just blindly copy what the professionals do.

>
So much for you not being an idiot.  Ubuntu didn't "blindly" do
anything, they just made the wrong choice for their default UI.  You
could still choose to run a classic UI.  None of the other distros,
AFAIK, followed that lead at all.
>
Choice.  What you don't get from Microshaft and crApple.

  Exactly, I happen to think M$'s GUI is logical, and voila, Mint
Cinnamon gives me essentially the same thing.  Choice.  Others want
something else.  Also, choice.  It's beautiful.

This "choice" bit by chrisv is a Red Herring diversion attempt, because my point wasn't about choice at all:  it was about how some folks foolishly try to make claims without any objective support.
Here, their claim was that they found that XYZ personally gives them a warm fuzzy, but that is not objective or generalizable to everyone else.

'What -hh said about Photoshop - expensive, waste, Gimp does the same
for free - is exactly the written position of most if not all
"advocates" on cola.'  -  DumFSck, lying shamelessly

  I wouldn't assert that GIMP is in every respect equal to Photoshop,

I'd also like to see the original statement made, because the above kinda looks like a misquote or misstatement:  I've never claimed that Adobe Photoshop was an expensive waste.  Sure, its expensive and it is overkill for a lot of people (usually the ones who complain about its cost), but it has been the industry's premier digital graphics tool for the better part of two decades.

but I can say that I was not especially impressed with Photoshop, I
still had months left on my year of it when I deleted Win11, and
couldn't give a fuck less.  GIMP all the way, now.
 

 From a learning curve standpoint, GIMP's fewer options make it shorter and thus easier & faster to grasp.  For those who don't need anything more than the 80% solution, GIMP is just that:  the 80% solution.
-hh