Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 09:13:48 -0700, John Ames wrote:

GIMP is deeply frustrating because it's a lot of very solid technical
functionality married to a cargo-cult version of the Photoshop UI ...

That’s strange, isn’t it, since most of the Adobe-lovers who don’t like
GIMP primarily say it’s because its UI is too different from Photoshop.

You think it would be better if it were *more* different?

(As if large parts of what is nowadays associated with the Photoshop UI is
in fact original with Photoshop ...)

Blender I looked at once and ran screaming for the hills. Whatever
tri-lobed space aliens designed that interface can *have* it.

Blender is getting a lot of industry funding, you may notice. Some major
users getting a bit dissatisfied with the proprietary offerings ... ?

It’s about the only major app left that covers all the main parts of the
DCC pipeline in a single, integrated workflow. Proprietary tools (Maya
etc) are all turning into specialists that only deal with parts of the
work, so then you have the job of trying to try to get several different
(and expensive) apps to interoperate according to their particular
interpretations of what are supposed to be “industry standard” formats and
protocols.