Re: GIMP (and digiKam and other photo management programs)

On 2024-12-29 06:44, D wrote:

My father has been a happy gimp user for many years, and he is 73. No
problem with the gui. The only thing he is sensitive to is if they make
changes or move buttons around.
But all software makers enjoy doing that.

On 2024-12-29, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

My father is going to turn 80 last year and happily used Linux Mint
until he deided to buy himself a new mini desktop with Windows 10 on it.
If anything, he preferred Mint and asked me whether there was a way to
implement some of its functionality onto the desktop like the way that
it imports photos and videos from a phone. I didn't bother to install it
on his new machine though.

Depending on what type of phone, it can be simple to open the CameraRoll
folder through a USB cable. In Android, you may have to explicitly
authorize the use of USB for anything beyond charging.

On iPhone, Windows can mount the entire iCloud Photos database as a
folder in "This PC" (or "My Computer" or what they call it this year.
On Linux, there is "icloudpd", a python program that can grab the last
several hundred new photos from an iCloud account. I have used both.